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Daillydium quadridactylites
Daillydium quadridactylites (Stoclunans and Williere, 1962) Stoclunans and Williere, 1969
Acritarch
Originally Hystrichosphaeridium, subsequently Daillydium.
Holotype: Stockmans and Williere, 1962, pl.1, fig.18
Age: Devonian (Frasnian)
Tax. jr. synonym of the prasinophyte species Cymatiosphaera (now Daillydium) pentaster Staplin (1961) according to Playford in Playford and Dring (1981); Daillydium pentaster therefore becomes the correct name for the type species of Daillydium, but the nomenclatural type of the genus remains the holotype of Daillydium quadridactylites. Gorka (1974) considered this species to be a tax. jr. synonym of the prasinophyte species Cymatiosphaera tetraster (Staplin 1961), which is now also considered to be a tax. jr. synonym of Daillydium pentaster, (Staplin, 1961) Playford in Playford and Dring, (1981).
Acritarch
Originally Hystrichosphaeridium, subsequently Daillydium.
Holotype: Stockmans and Williere, 1962, pl.1, fig.18
Age: Devonian (Frasnian)
Tax. jr. synonym of the prasinophyte species Cymatiosphaera (now Daillydium) pentaster Staplin (1961) according to Playford in Playford and Dring (1981); Daillydium pentaster therefore becomes the correct name for the type species of Daillydium, but the nomenclatural type of the genus remains the holotype of Daillydium quadridactylites. Gorka (1974) considered this species to be a tax. jr. synonym of the prasinophyte species Cymatiosphaera tetraster (Staplin 1961), which is now also considered to be a tax. jr. synonym of Daillydium pentaster, (Staplin, 1961) Playford in Playford and Dring, (1981).