Areoligera galea

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"?galea" (Maier, 1959, p.306-307, pl.29, fig.4) Davey et al., 1969, p.15.  Emendation: Sarjeant, 1983, p.10, as Chiropteridium galea.  Holotype: Maier, 1959, pl.29, fig.4; Eisenack and Kjellström, 1975b, p.88a; Fensome et al., 1995, fig.1 - p.1495.  NOW Chiropteridium.  Originally Galea (generic name illegitimate), subsequently Baltisphaeridium (Appendix A), thirdly Areoligera, fourthly Areoligera?, fifthly (and now) Chiropteridium.  Questionable assignment: Stover and Evitt (1978, p.19).  Taxonomic junior synonyms: Chiropteridium dispersum, Galea (al. Baltisphaeridium) mespilanum and Galea (al. Baltisphaeridium) levis, all according to Sarjeant (1983, p.108-109); Membranophoridium multispinatum, according to Brosius (1963, p.48) and Gocht (1969, p.63), who considered Membranophoridium multispinatum to be a taxonomic junior synonym of Galea (as Chiropteridium) dispersa, which is now a taxonomic junior synonym of Galea (now Chiropteridium) galea; Membranophoridium (subsequently Chiropteridium) partispinatum, by implication in Matsuoka and Bujak (1988, p.40), who considered Membranophoridium partispinatum to be a taxonomic junior synonym of Galea (as Chiropteridium) mespilana, which is now a taxonomic junior synonym of Galea (now Chiropteridium) galea.  N.I.A.  Age: Oligocene.

Parent: Areoligera