HOME  Hierarchy  Table  Index  References

Palaeoperidinium reticulatum

"Palaeoperidinium reticulatum" Valensi, 1953, p.28, pl.2, figs.4-5,14,19; pl.13, fig.6; text-fig.2d.

TYPE: Holotype: Valensi, 1953, pl.2, figs.4-5.

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

HISTORY: NOW: Epiplosphaera. Originally Palaeoperidinium (name not validly published), subsequently Dictyopyxis (generic name illegitimate), thirdly Dictyopyxidia, fourthly Ellipsoidictyum, fifthly (and now) Epiplosphaera.

SYNONYM(S): Taxonomic senior synonym: Epiplosphaera bireticulata, by implication in Courtinat (1989, p.176), who believed Palaeoperidinium (as Epiplosphaera) reticulatum to be the senior name - however, Poulsen (1992a, p.66) retained the two species.

AGE: Bajocian.


Infraspecific taxa:


Go up one level.
DINOFLAJ (c) 1998