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Appendix B

Gonyaulax nuciformis

"Gonyaulax nuciformis" Deflandre, 1939a, p.180, pl.8, figs.4-6 ex Sarjeant, 1962a, p.482-483.

TYPE: Holotype: Deflandre, 1938, pl.8, fig.6; Jan du Chêne et al., 1986a, pl.11, figs.1-3.

HISTORY: NOW: Cribroperidinium. Originally Palaeoperidinium (name not valdily published), subsequently Gonyaulax, thirdly Gonyaulacysta, fourthly Apteodinium, fifthly Millioudodinium, sixthly (and now) Cribroperidinium.

SYNONYM(S): Taxonomic junior synonym: Palaeoperidinium nuciformoides, according to Sarjeant (1968, p.227).

COMMENTS: The name Palaeoperidinium nuciforme was not validly published in Deflandre (1939a) since the generic name Palaeoperidinium was not validly published until 1967.

AGE: Oxfordian.


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