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Tectatodinium pellitum

*Tectatodinium pellitum Wall, 1967, p.113, pl.16, figs.11-12.

EMENDATION: Head, 1994a, p.308,310 Holotype: Wall, 1967, pl.16, fig.12; Head, 1994a, pl.1, figs.1-9.

SYNONYM(S): Taxonomic junior synonym: Tectatodinium grande, according to Head (1994a, p.308).

MOTILE EQUIVALENT: Gonyaulax spinifera (Claparède and Lachmann, 1859) Diesing, 1866, according to Wall and Dale (1967, p.352; 1968c, p.270) and Dodge (1989, p.289).

COMMENTS: Head (1994a, p.308) considered this species to be the possible taxonomic senior synonym of Xenicodinium (now Tectatodinium) rugulatum.

AGE: Miocene-Holocene.


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