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Palaeoperidinium mosaicum

"Palaeoperidinium mosaicum" Downie, 1957, p.424, pl.20, fig.7; text-fig.2f.

EMENDATION: Sarjeant, 1976c, p.6-7, as Leptodinium mosaicum.

TYPE: Holotype: Downie, 1957, pl.20, fig.7; text-fig.2f; Sarjeant, 1976c, pl.2, figs.3,5; text-figs.2a-b; Jan du Chêne et al., 1986a, pl.70, figs.5-6.

STATUS: Name not validly published: generic name not validly published until 1967.

HISTORY: NOW: Leptodinium?. Originally Palaeoperidinium (name not validly published), subsequently Gonyaulacysta, thirdly Leptodinium, fourthly (and now) Leptodinium?.

ETYMOLOGY: N.I.A.

AGE: Late Kimmeridgian.


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