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Appendix B

Peridinium tricuspe

"Peridinium tricuspe" O. Wetzel, 1933a, p.166, pl.2, fig.14.

TYPE: Holotype: O. Wetzel, 1933a, pl.2, fig.14; Lejeune-Carpentier, 1942, fig.21; Lejeune-Carpentier and Sarjeant, 1981, pl.6, fig.5.

HISTORY: NOW: Phelodinium. Originally Peridinium, subsequently Lejeunia (combination illegitimate), thirdly Astrocysta, fourthly Senegalinium, fifthly Lejeunecysta, sixthly (and now) Phelodinium.

SYNONYM(S): Taxonomic junior synonym: Lejeunia (now Phelodinium) kozlowskii, according to Harker and Sarjeant (1975, p.223) - however, Lindgren (1984, p.181) retained Phelodinium kozlowskii.

COMMENTS: This name was not validly published in O. Wetzel (1932, p.142 caption to pl.2, fig.11), since no description was given.

AGE: Senonian.


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