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Lingulodinium machaerophorum

*Lingulodinium machaerophorum (Deflandre and Cookson, 1955, p.274, pl.9, figs.4,8) Wall, 1967, p.109.

TYPE: Holotype: Deflandre and Cookson, 1955, pl.9, fig.4.

HISTORY: Originally Hystrichosphaeridium, subsequently Baltisphaeridium (Appendix A), thirdly Cleistosphaeridium (combination not validly published), fourthly (and now) Lingulodinium.

SYNONYM(S): Taxonomic junior synonyms: Cleistosphaeridium disjunctum, according to Reid (1974, p.591); Cleistosphaeridium mikirii, according to Jain and Garg (1983, p.61); Hystrichosphaeridium redonense, according to Harland (1977b, p.94); Hystrichosphaeridium ashdodense, according to Wall (1967, p.109); Baltisphaeridium (subsequently Lingulodinium) funginum, Lingulodinium brevispinosum and Lingulodinium sadoense, all according to Kokinos and Anderson (1995, p.162).

MOTILE EQUIVALENT: Gonyaulax (now Lingulodinium) polyedra Stein, 1883, according to Wall and Dale (1967, p.352; 1968c, p.271).

COMMENTS: Stover and Evitt (1978, p.172) considered Impletosphaeridium (as Lingulodinium?) pycnospinosum to be a possible taxonomic junior synonym of this species.

AGE: Miocene.


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