Cribroperidinium granuligerum

granuligerum (Klement, 1960, p.41-42, pl.5, figs.4-5) Stover and Evitt, 1978, p.150.  Emendation: Sarjeant, 1984a, p.156, as Cryptarchaeodinium granuligerum.  Holotype: Klement, 1960, pl.5, figs.4-5; Sarjeant, 1984a, pl.1, figs.3-4; text-fig.1; Jan du Chêne et al., 1986a, pl.27, figs.11-14.  Originally Gonyaulax (Appendix B), subsequently Gonyaulacysta, thirdly (and now) Cribroperidinium, fourthly Rhynchodiniopsis, fifthly Cryptarchaeodinium, sixthly Acanthaulax.  Poulsen (1996, p.75) retained this species in Cribroperidinium.  Taxonomic senior synonym: Gonyaulax (as Cribroperidinium) granulata, according to Fisher and Riley (1980, p.321) - however, Sarjeant (1984a, p.156-158) retained Gonyaulax (as Cryptarchaeodinium) granuligera.  Age: Mid Oxfordian-Early Kimmeridgian.

Parent: Cribroperidinium