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Palaeoperidinium hansonianum

"Palaeoperidinium hansonianum" (Traverse, 1955, p.77-79, pl.13, fig.147) Lentin and Williams, 1973, p.105.

TYPE: Holotype: Traverse, 1955, pl.13, fig.147; Traverse, 1994, pl.1, fig.1.

HISTORY: NOW: Saeptodinium. Originally Peridinium (Appendix B), subsequently Palaeoperidinium, thirdly (and now) Saeptodinium.

COMMENTS: Evitt (1974, p.4) indicated that this species has affinities with the modern species Peridinium limbatum (Stokes, 1887) Lemmermann, 1899.

AGE: latest Oligocene (mid Early Miocene, according to Traverse, 1994).


Infraspecific taxa:


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