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Appendix A

Multiplicisphaeridium cruciatum

Multiplicisphaeridium? cruciatum (O. Wetzel, 1933b, p.94-95, pl.4, fig.30 ex Lejeune-Carpentier, 1940, p.B222) Stancliffe and Sarjeant, 1994, p.235.

EMENDATION: Lejeune-Carpentier and Sarjeant, 1981, p.22-23, as Veryhachium cruciatum.

TYPE: Holotype: O. Wetzel, 1933b, pl.4, fig.30.

HISTORY: Originally Hystrichosphaera (name not validly published), subsequently Hystrichosphaeridium, thirdly Hystrichosphaeridium?, fourthly Veryhachium (Appendix A), fifthly (and now) Multiplicisphaeridium?. Questionable assignment: Stancliffe and Sarjeant (1994, p.235).

COMMENTS: The name Hystrichosphaera cruciata was not validly published in O. Wetzel (1933b) since the generic name Hystrichosphaera was not validly published until 1937.

AGE: Late Cretaceous.


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