Family Heterocapsaceae

Family Heterocapsaceae

Citation: Heterocapsaceae Fensome et al. 1993b. Diagnosis:As for the suborder Heterocapsineae. Type genus: Heterocapsa Stein 1883. Extant genera: Heterocapsa Stein 1883. (=Cachonina Loeblich III 1968; taxonomic junior synonym - see Morrill and Loeblich III, 1981b, p.63) Fossil genera: Andreedinium Below 1987a; Jurassic (Toarcian). Angustidinium Goodman and Evitt 1981; Cretaceous (Albian). Liasidium Drugg 1978; Jurassic (Sinemurian). Moesiodinium Antonescu 1974; Mid Jurassic. Ovalicysta Bjaerke 1980; Jurassic (Toarcian). Parvocysta Bjaerke 1980; Jurassic (Toarcian). Reutlingia Drugg 1978; Jurassic (Callovian). Susadinium Dörhöfer and Davies 1980; Jurassic (Toarcian-Bathonian). (=Facetodinium Bjaerke 1980; taxonomic junior synonym according to Lentin and Williams, 1989, p.135)

Suborder Heterocapsineae