Galea galea

"*galea" Maier, 1959, p.306, pl.29, fig.4; text-fig.2.  Emendation: Sarjeant, 1983, p.110, 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.  Taxonomic junior synonyms: Chiropteridium dispersum, Galea mespilanum and Galea levis, all according to Sarjeant (1983, p.108-109); Membranophoridium multispinatum, according to Brosius (1963, p.48); Membranophoridium (al. Chiropteridium) partispinatum, by implication in Matsuoka and Bujak (1988, p.40), who considered Chiropteridium mespilanum to be the correct name.  Following I.C.B.N. Article 55.1, the species name Galea galea is validly published even though the generic name Galea is illegitimate.  N.I.A.  Age: Oligocene.

Parent: Galea