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Type species: (original designation) Schizosporis reticulatus (Cookson and Dettmann 1959).

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Glikson-Simpson, M. (2020). Systematic Descriptions. In: Coal—A Window to Past Climate and Vegetation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44472-3_2

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