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Pentagonum marginatum

"Pentagonum marginatum" Vozzhennikova, 1967, p.107, pl.46, figs.1,3-4,6.

TYPE: Holotype: Vozzhennikova, 1967, pl.46, fig.6; Lentin and Vozzhennikova, 1990, pl.7, fig.6; text-fig.33; lost according to Lentin and Vozzhennikova (1990, p.62).

HISTORY: Originally Pentagonum (generic name illegitimate), subsequently Palaeoperidinium.

SYNONYM(S): Taxonomic senior synonym: Peridinium (now Palaeoperidinium) pyrophorum, according to Lentin and Vozzhennikova (1990, p.61).

COMMENTS: Following I.C.B.N. Article 55.1, the species name Pentagonum marginatum is validly published even though the generic name Pentagonum is illegitimate.

AGE: Paleocene.


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