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Operculodinium microtriainum

Operculodinium microtriainum (Klumpp, 1953, p.390, pl.17, figs.6-7) Islam, 1983a, p.241.

EMENDATION: Sarjeant, 1981, p.110-112, as Achomosphaera microtriaina.

TYPE: Holotype: Klumpp, 1953, pl.17, figs.6-7; Sarjeant, 1981, pl.2, figs.1-2; text-fig.2.

HISTORY: Originally Hystrichosphaeridium, subsequently Cordosphaeridium, thirdly Cordosphaeridium?, fourthly Polysphaeridium, fifthly Achomosphaera, sixthly (and now) Operculodinium.

SYNONYM(S): Taxonomic junior synonym: Operculodinium paucispinosum, according to Jain and Garg (1991, p.80).

AGE: Late Eocene.


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