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Appendix B

Protoperidinium conicum

Protoperidinium conicum (Gran, 1900, p.47) Balech, 1974, p.58.

TYPE: Holotype: information not available.

HISTORY: Originally Peridinium divergens var. conicum (Appendix B), subsequently Peridinium conicum (Appendix B), thirdly (and now) Protoperidinium conicum.

COMMENTS: Modern species defined from the motile stage. Fossil cysts assigned to this taxon by Deflandre (1939b) were included in Palaeoperidinium deflandrei by Lentin and Williams (1973, p.105).

AGE: Holocene.


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