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Batiacasphaera minor jiabo 1978

Batiacasphaera minor, (Jiabo, 1978), Jan du Chêne et al., 1985

Combination illegitimate - senior homonym: Batiacasphaera minor (Cookson and Hughes, 1964) Dörhöfer and Davies, 1980.
Substitute name: Batiacasphaera sinensis. Originally Tenua hystrix subsp. minor, subsequently Kallosphaeridium? minus, thirdly Batiacasphaera minor (combination illegitimate), fourthly (and now) Batiacasphaera sinensis, fifthly Batiacasphaera jiaboi (name not validly published), sixthly Sentusidinium minus. Lentin and Williams (1993, p.56) retained this species in Batiacasphaera, but He Chengquan et al. (2009, p.251) retained it in Sentusidinium.

Holotype: Jiabo, 1978, pl.23, fig.5
Age: Early Tertiary
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