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Genus Wallodinium

Wallodinium Loeblich Jr. and Loeblich III, 1968, p.212.

EMENDATION: Riding, 1994, p.17-18.

HISTORY: Substitute name for Diplotesta Cookson and Eisenack, 1960b, p.256 (an illegitimate name).

COMMENTS: Duxbury (1983, p.68) and Fensome et al. (1990, p.535) considered this genus to represent acritarchs; however, Riding (1994, p.17-18) confirmed its dinoflagellate affinity.

TYPE: Cookson and Eisenack, 1960b, pl.39, fig.4, as Diplotesta glaessneri.


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