Wallodinium elongatum

"elongatum" (Beju, 1971, p.289-290, pl.3, figs.7-10; text-figs.6A-E) Duxbury, 1980, p.136.  Emendations: Feist-Burkhardt and Monteil, 1994, p.9, as Andreedinium elongatum; Riding, 1994, p.16, as Phallocysta elongata.  Holotype: Beju, 1971, pl.3, fig.7; text-fig.6A.  NOW Phallocysta.  Originally Fromea (Appendix A), subsequently Fromea? (Appendix A), thirdly Wallodinium, fourthly Palaeostomocystis (Appendix A), fifthly Andreedinium, sixthly (and now) Phallocysta.  Nomenclatural junior synonym: Phallocysta minuta; refer to that species for details.  Taxonomic senior synonym: Prismatocystis (as and now Wallodinium) cylindrica, according to Duxbury (1983, p.68) - however, Feist-Burkhardt and Monteil in Feist-Burkhardt (1990, p.615) retained Wallodinium (as Andreedinium) elongatum.  Taxonomic junior synonym: Phallocysta subconica, according to Riding (1994, p.16).  Age Bajocian-Oxfordian.

Parent: Wallodinium