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CAN any of the readers of NATURE inform me to what class of fossil organisms belongs the genus Histioderma? Mention of the name—but of the name only—is made by Sterry Hunt in this journal, vol. vi. (1872), p. 54, and by Hicks in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, vol. xxix. part 1, 1873, table facing p. 42. It does not occur in Broun's “Index Palæontologica,” in Pfeiffer's “Nomenclator Botanicus,” nor in Scudder's “Zoological Nomenclator.” The name is not to be confounded with that of Carter's genus, Histoderma, established 1874, for recent sponges.
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S. What is Histioderma?. Nature 34, 53 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/034053d0
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