Difference between revisions of "Family Actiniscaceae"

Diagnosis:Actiniscineans in which the motile cell has a rigid, siliceous, internal stellate skeleton of two parts which, together with a perinuclear strengthening layer, encloses the nucleus.

Actiniscus ( Ehrenberg, 1841) Ehrenberg, 1843a; fossil - Pliocene.

Diaster Meunier, 1910.

Actiniscus ( Ehrenberg, 1841) Ehrenberg, 1843a; Pliocene.


(=Gymnaster Schütt, 1891; taxonomic junior synonym by general consideration)


(=Lutetianella Filipescu, 1943 ex Filipescu, 1959; taxonomic junior synonym according to Dumitrică, 1973, p.820)


(=Microdistephanus Filipescu, 1943 ex Filipescu, 1959; taxonomic junior synonym according to Dumitrică, 1973, p.820)



Carduifolia Hovasse, 1932a ex Hovasse, 1932b; Tertiary.
Cinctactiniscus Dumitrică, 1973; Late Oligocene-Early Pliocene.
Foliactiniscus Dumitrică, 1973; Tertiary.

(?Calicipedinium Dumitrică, 1973; name not validly published)