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Cleistosphaeridium furcillatum

Cleistosphaeridium furcillatum, Prössl, 1990

This name was not validly published in Prössl (1990, p.100), since that author did not specify the lodgment of the holotype.

Holotype: Prössl, 1990, pl.7, figs.12,14; Fauconnier and Masure, 2004, pl.49, figs.1-2.
Locus typicus: Salzgitter, NW-Germany
Stratum typicum: Hauterivian-Early Barremian

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Original description: [Prössl, 1990, p. 100]:

Dignosis:
The chorate cyst is sphaerical to subsphaerical and consists of a smooth autophragm, which is covered by numerous bifurcate to multifurcate processes.

Description:
The solid processes are bifid, the tips can be slightly recurvate.
The processes are about 2 µm thick and smooth. From the distribution of processes no hint on tabulation, parasulcus or paracingulum is available.
The archaeopyle is apical, type tA.

Affinities:
The species shows similarities to C. tribuliferum but differs from this in the stronger furcation of the processes, which are more numerous and thicker, too.
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