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Kantollum Cheng, 1986 Kantollum Cheng, 1986: 163. TYPE SPECIES. — Kantollum pittsburgense Cheng, 1986 (Cheng 1986: 164, pl. 2, fig. 4, 8, 22). AGE AND LOCATION OF TYPE MATERIAL. — Famennian to lower Kinderhookian (Upper Devonian to Lower Carboniferous), Woodford Formation, Ouachita Mountains, Oklahoma, USA. TAXON CODE. — 230. STATUS. — Valid. DIAGNOSIS. — “Test as with subfamily, conical, strongly or weakly lobulate. Four or more lobes with strictures at joints. Single layer of irregularly arranged pore frames; microgranular layer usually covering the spherical to subspherical cephalis. Sturdy apical and/or subapical horns and spines confined to the cephalic wall.” (Cheng 1986: 142)., Published as part of Noble, Paula, Aitchison, Jonathan C., Danelian, Taniel, Dumitrica, Paulian, Maletz, Jörg, Suzuki, Noritoshi, Cuvelier, Jessie, Caridroit, Martial & O'Dogherty, Luis, 2017, Taxonomy of Paleozoic radiolarian genera, pp. 419-502 in Geodiversitas 39 (3) on pages 474-475, DOI: 10.5252/g2017n3a4, http://zenodo.org/record/5206585, {"references":["CHENG Y. - N. 1986. - Taxonomic Studies on Upper Paleozoic Radiolaria. National Museum of Natural Science, Taiwan, Special Publication, vol. 1, 310 p."]}