Subfamily Wetzelielloideae

Subfamily Wetzelielloideae

Citation: Wetzelielloideae ( Vozzhennikova 1961) Bujak and Davies 1983. Diagnosis:Peridiniaceans in which the middorsal anterior intercalary plate is quadra (i.e. four-sided). Type genus: Wetzeliella Eisenack 1938b; fossil - Late Eocene-Early Oligocene. Fossil genera: Apectodinium ( Costa and Downie 1976) Lentin and Williams 1977b; Early Eocene. Charlesdowniea Lentin and Vozzhennikova 1989; Early Eocene. Dracodinium Gocht 1955; Eocene-Oligocene. Kisselevia Vozzhennikova 1963 ex Vozzhennikova 1967; Eocene. (=Kisseljovia Vozzhennikova 1961; name not validly published; nomenclatural junior synonym, having same type) (=Kisselovia Vozzhennikova 1963; name not validly published; nomenclatural junior synonym, having same type) Rhombodinium Gocht 1955; Mid Oligocene. Wetzeliella Eisenack 1938b; Late Eocene-Early Oligocene. (=Gochtodinium Bujak 1979; taxonomic junior synonym according to Lentin and Vozzhennikova 1989, p.228) Wilsonidium Lentin and Williams 1976; Late Eocene.

Family Peridiniaceae part 1