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Palaeoperidinium deflandrei

"Palaeoperidinium deflandrei" Lentin and Williams, 1973, p.105.

TYPE: Holotype: Deflandre, 1936b, pl.4, fig.4 as Peridinium conicum.

SYNONYM(S): Taxonomic senior synonym: Peridinium (as and now Palaeoperidinium) pyrophorum, according to Stover and Evitt (1978, p.218).

COMMENTS: Lentin and Williams (1973, p.105) erected this species to accommodate fossil specimens attributed to the modern taxon Protoperidinium conicum (Gran, 1900) Balech, 1974 by Deflandre (1939b, p.174), who provided a description.

AGE: Danian.


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