Ctenidodinium stauromatos

"?stauromatos" (Sarjeant, 1976a, p.9-11, pl.2, fig.4; pl.3, figs.5-6; text-figs.1A-C) Stover and Evitt, 1978, p.204.  Holotype: Sarjeant, 1976a, pl.2, fig.4.  Originally Dichadogonyaulax, subsequently Ctenidodinium, thirdly Ctenidodinium?.  Questionable assignment: Benson (1985, p.152).  Taxonomic senior synonym: Dichadogonyaulax (as Ctenidodinium) sellwoodii, according to Riley and Fenton (1982, p.199) and Conway (1990, p.35).  Taxonomic senior synonym: Ctenidodinium tenellum, according to Courtinat (1989, p.209) - however, Lentin and Williams (1993, p.179-180) retained Dichadogonyaulax stauromatos as a taxonomic junior synonym of Dichadogonyaulax sellwoodii.  Dodekova (1990, p.36) considered Ctenidodinium? rotundum to be a probable taxonomic senior synonym of this species.  N.I.A.  Age: Bathonian.

Parent: Ctenidodinium