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Palaeoperidinium ellipsoideum

"Palaeoperidinium? ellipsoideum" Deflandre, 1936b, p.178, pl.6, figs.5-7.

TYPE: Holotype: Deflandre, 1936b, pl.6, figs.6-7.

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

HISTORY: NOW: Microdinium?. Originally Palaeoperidinium (name not validly published), subsequently (and now) Microdinium?, thirdly Microdinium, fourthly Palaeoperidinium? (combination not validly published). Questionable assignment: Stover and Evitt (1978, p.218), as a problematical species.

COMMENTS: This combination was not validly published in Stover and Evitt (1978, p.218) since these authors did not fully reference the basionym.

AGE: Senonian.


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