Phallocysta subconica

"subconica" Lentin and Williams, 1993, p.507.  Holotype: Prauss, 1989, pl.2, fig.3; text-fig.5.  Originally Phallocysta minuta (name illegitimate), subsequently Phallocysta subconica.  Substitute name for Phallocysta minuta Prauss, 1989, p.20-21, pl.2, figs.1-4; text-fig.5 (an illegitimate name).  Taxonomic senior synonym: Fromea (as and now Phallocysta) elongata, according to Riding (1994, p.16).  The name Phallocysta minuta is illegitimate since, in proposing it, Prauss (1989, p.20) included in synonymy the holotype of Fromea elongata.  However, Riding et al. (1991, p.153) argued that the form described by Prauss as Phallocysta minuta is distinct from Fromea elongata Hence, Lentin and Williams (1993, p.507) proposed the name Phallocysta subconica to accommodate Prauss's material.  Age: Late Toarcian-Early Bajocian.

Parent: Phallocysta