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Hystrichosphaeridium replexum

Hystrichosphaeridium replexum Tasch, 1964

Tax. jr. synonym of Hystrichosphaeridium (now Kiokansium) unituberculatum Tasch, 1964, according to Stover and Evitt, 1978,
Holotype: Tasch, 1964, pl.3, fig.14
Locus typicus: Clark County, Kansas, U.S.A.
Stratum typicum: Albian

Original diagnosis: Tasch, 1964, p.193
Sausage-shaped capsule with convex flexure on one side and concavity on the other; bearing variable-sized elongate processes, flat-ended or bifurcate at terminations; greatest density of processes on the relatively narrow ends, which are of unequal width.
Dimensions: Holotype: Length 52 µm; width (wide end) 26 µm; width (narrow end) 18 µm; width (middle) 24 µm; length of processes 10-12 µm; thickness of processes 1 µm; density of processes 2 per 5 µm of edge.
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