Difference between revisions of "Family Areoligeraceae"

Diagnosis:Gonyaulacineans in which at least the anterior part of the sulcus is offset to the left. There tends to be dorsoventral compression of the fossilizable cyst and asymmetry in the antapical outline.

Areoligera Lejeune-Carpentier, 1938a; Cretaceous (Senonian).

Adnatosphaeridium Williams and Downie, 1966c; Early Eocene.
Areoligera Lejeune-Carpentier, 1938a; Cretaceous (Senonian).
Atlantodinium Zotto et al., 1987; Jurassic (Kimmeridgian).
Canningia Cookson and Eisenack, 1960b; Jurassic (Tithonian).


(=Hashenia Yu Jingxian and Zhang Wangping, 1980; taxonomic junior synonym according to Chen et al., 1988, p.16)



Canninginopsis Cookson and Eisenack, 1962b; Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian).
Cassidium Drugg, 1967; Early Eocene.
Cauveridinium Khowaja-Ateequzzaman and Jain, 1990; Cretaceous (Turonian-Santonian).
Chiropteridium Gocht, 1960; Mid Oligocene.


(=Galea Maier, 1959; illegitimate homonym; taxonomic junior synonym according to Sarjeant, 1983, p.108)



Circulodinium Alberti, 1961; Cretaceous (Valanginian-Hauterivian).
Cyclonephelium Deflandre and Cookson, 1955; Creteceous (Albian-Santonian).
Gerdiocysta Liengjarern et al., 1980; Early Oligocene.
Glaphyrocysta Stover and Evitt, 1978; Cretaceous (Senonian).
Membranophoridium Gerlach, 1961; Mid Oligocene.
Palynodinium Gocht, 1970a; Late Cretaceous.
Ramidinium Guerstein et al., 1998; Miocene (Burdigalian-Langhian).
Renidinium Morgenroth, 1968; Paleocene (Danian).
Riculacysta Stover, 1977; Mid to Late Oligocene.
Schematophora Deflandre and Cookson, 1955; Eocene-Miocene.
Senoniasphaera Clarke and Verdier, 1967; Cretaceous (Santonian).
Tenua Eisenack, 1958a; Cretaceous (Aptian).


(=Cerbia Below, 1981a; taxonomic junior synonym according to Sarjeant, 1985b, p.179)