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Appendix B

Genus Gonyaulax

Gonyaulax Diesing, 1866, p.305,382. Fensome et al. (1993b, p.93) considered Gonyaulax to be a possible taxonomic junior synonym of Spiniferites. Type: specimen not designated originally or apparently subsequently; "type species" Peridinium (now Gonyaulax) spiniferum Claparède and Lachmann, 1859.

COMMENTS: Diesing, 1866, p.305,382. Fensome et al. (1993b, p.93) considered Gonyaulax to be a possible taxonomic junior synonym of Spiniferites.

TYPE: specimen not designated originally or apparently subsequently; "type species" Peridinium (now Gonyaulax) spiniferum Claparède and Lachmann, 1859.


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