Thoracosphaera Kamptner, 1927, p.180-184.
EMENDATION: Fütterer, 1976, p.119,130 - see below. COMMENTS: Extant calcareous dinoflagellate genus. According to Tangen et al. (1982), the "type species", Thoracosphaera heimii, represents the calcareous cell wall of a dinoflagellate vegetative stage. It is unlikely, however, that all the species listed below are dinoflagellates. Fütterer (1976) provided a diagnosis for Thoracosphaera which was not labelled an emendation or revision; in his abstract, however, he refers to the "redefined and revised genus Thoracosphaera". TYPE: Kamptner, 1927, text-fig.6, as Syracosphaera pelagica.
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