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Genus Thylacocausticus
Name: Thylacocausticus Green et al. 1988
Etymology: Thy.la.co.caus.ti.cus. N.L. masc. n. Thylacocausticus, from the Latin, thylacus, bag, and causticus, burning, referring to the penetrating of the substrate by the outer vesicle
Gender: masculine (stem: Thylacocaustic-)
Type species: Thylacocausticus globorum Green et al. 1988
Valid publication:
Green JW, Knoll AH, Swett K. Microfossils from oolites and pisolites of the Upper Proterozoic Eleonore Bay Group, Central East Greenland. J Paleontol 1988; 62:835-852. 
Nomenclatural status: validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code)
Taxonomic status: correct name
Number of child taxa with a validly published and correct name: 1
Number of child taxa with a validly published name, including synonyms: 1
Total number of child taxa: 1
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Child taxa:
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Name Nomenclatural status Taxonomic status Thylacocausticus globorum Green et al. 1988 validly published under the ICN (Botanical Code) correct name
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Parent taxon: [Cyanophyceae, not assigned to family]
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Record number: 24341
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