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Hystrichosphaeridium entomium

Hystrichosphaeridium entomium Tasch, 1964

Tax. jr. synonym of Hystrichosphaeridium (now Kiokansium) unituberculatum Tasch, 1964, according to Stover and Evitt, 1978
Holotype: Tasch, 1964, pl.3, fig.15
Locus typicus: Clark County, Kansas, USA
Stratum typicum: Albian

Original diagnosis: Tasch, 1964, p.193
Spherical capsule with irregularly notched or scalloped fringes bearing straight or irregularly curving filamentous and hairlike processes.
Dimensions: Holotype: Maximum diameter 50 µm; length of processes 10-14 µm; thickness of processes 1 µm; density of processes 1 per 5 µm of edge.
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