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Hystrichosphaeridium follium

Hystrichosphaeridium follium Tasch, 1964

Originally Hystrichosphaeridium, subsequently Polysphaeridium?.
Tax. jr. synonym of Hystrichosphaeridium (now Kiokansium) unituberculatum Tasch, 1964, according to Stover and Evitt, 1978.
Holotype: Tasch, 1964, pl.1, fig.8
Locus typicus: Clark County, Kansas, USA
Stratum typicum: Albian

Original diagnosis: Tasch, 1964, p.195
Ball shaped capsule with long, slender, tubular processes that are generally bifurcate at terminations.
Dimensions: Holotype: diameter (maximum) 48 µm; length of processes 12-16 µm; thickness of processes 1-2 µm; density of processes 1 + per 5 µm of edge.
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