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 Antonesçu, 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)

Parent: Suborder Heterocapsineae