Baltisphaeridium whitei Appendix A

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"whitei" (Deflandre and Courteville, 1939, p.103, pl.3, figs.5–6) Downie and Sarjeant, 1965, p.98.  Emendation: Monteil, 1991a, p.444, as Cometodinium? whitei.  Holotype: Deflandre and Courteville, 1939, pl.3, fig.5; Fauconnier and Masure, 2004, pl.16, figs.7–8.  NOW Cometodinium.  Originally Hystrichosphaeridium, subsequently Baltisphaeridium (Appendix A), thirdly Impletosphaeridium, fourthly Comasphaeridium (Appendix A), fifthly Cometodinium?, sixthly (and now) Cometodinium.  This combination was not validly published in Sarjeant (1959, p.339), since that author did not fully reference the basionym.  Age: Senonian.

Parent: Baltisphaeridium_Appendix A