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Cordosphaeridium spinosum var. deflandrei

Cordosphaeridium spinosum var. deflandrei (Lejeune-Carpentier, 1941) de Coninck, 1965

Combination not validly published since de Coninck, 1965, did not validly transfer the species to Cordosphaeridium, since he failed to fully reference the basionym
Xanthidium spinosum White, 1842.
Now Fibrocysta? deflandrei. Originally Hystrichosphaeridium spinosum var. deflandrei, subsequently Baltisphaeridium spinosum var. deflandrei, thirdly Exochosphaeridium spinosum var. deflandrei, fourthly Exochosphaeridium spinosum ssp. deflandrei, fifthly Exochosphaeridium? spinosum ssp. deflandrei, sixthly (and now) Fibrocysta? deflandrei.
Holotype: Lejeune-Carpentier, 1941, fig.6; Lejeune-Carpentier and Sarjeant, 1981, pl.4, figs.5-6; text-fig.8
Age: Late Cretaceous
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