Subfamily Cribroperidinioideae

Subfamily Cribroperidinioideae

Citation: Cribroperidinioideae Fensome et al., 1993b. Diagnosis:Gonyaulacaceans in which there is an L-type ventral organization, dextral torsion and six Kofoid precingular plates. Type genus: Cribroperidinium Neale and Sarjeant, 1962; fossil - Cretaceous (Hauterivian). Extant genus: ?Protoceratium Bergh, 1881a. (=Clathrocysta Stein, 1883; taxonomic junior synonym according to Schiller, 1936, p.322) Fossil genera: Achilleodinium Eaton, 1976; Late Eocene-Early Oligocene. ?Aldorfia Stover and Evitt, 1978; Jurassic (Bathonian). Apteodinium Eisenack, 1958a; Cretaceous (Aptian). (=Coniferatium Burgess, 1971; taxonomic junior synonym according to Stover and Evitt, 1978, p.141-142) Araneosphaera Eaton, 1976; Mid-Late Eocene. Bitubericysta Soncini, 1992; Eocene (Ypresian). Carpatella Grigorovich, 1969a; Paleocene (Danian). (=Paraireana He Chengquan, 1984a; taxonomic junior synonym according to Chen et al., 1988, p.21) Conneximura May, 1980; Paleocene (Danian). Cordosphaeridium Eisenack, 1963b; Late Eocene. (=Tityrosphaeridium Sarjeant, 1981; taxonomic junior synonym according to Lentin and Williams, 1985, p.355) Cousteaudinium de Verteuil and Norris, 1996a; Early-Mid Miocene. Cribroperidinium Neale and Sarjeant, 1962; Cretaceous (Hauterivian). (Meristaulax Sarjeant, 1984a; taxonomic junior synonym according to Jan du Chêne et al., 1986a, p.76 and Lentin and Williams, 1993,p.423) (Meristaulax Brenner, 1988; taxonomic junior synonym - see Williams et al., 1998, p.398) Cryptarchaeodinium Deflandre, 1939b; Jurassic (Kimmeridgian). Damassadinium Fensome et al., 1993b; Paleocene (Danian). (=Danea Morgenroth, 1968; homonym -Damassadinium is substitute) Diphyes Cookson, 1965a; Early Eocene. (=Lingulasphaera Drugg, 1970b; taxonomic junior synonym according to Stover and Evitt, 1978, p.38) ?Disphaerogena O. Wetzel, 1933b; Late Cretaceous. (=Cyclapophysis Benson, 1976; taxonomic junior synonym according to Sarjeant, 1985b, p.140-141) (=Plethysyrinx Sarjeant, 1981; taxonomic junior synonym implied in Lentin and Williams, 1985, p.287) Epitricysta Stover and Helby, 1987c; Cretaceous (Hauterivian-Aptian). Florentinia Davey and Verdier, 1973; Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian). Hapsocysta Davey, 1979b; Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian). Hystrichokolpoma Klumpp, 1953; Late Eocene. Ifecysta Jan du Chêne and Adediran, 1985; Late Paleocene-Early Oligocene. ?Kallosphaeridium de Coninck, 1969; Early Eocene. Kenleyia Cookson and Eisenack, 1965b; Paleocene. Korystocysta Woollam, 1983; Jurassic (Bathonian). Lingulodinium Wall, 1967; Miocene. (=Trioperculodinium Drugg, 1970b; taxonomic junior synonym according to Wall and Dale in Wall et al., 1973, p.24) ?Millioudodinium Stover and Evitt, 1978; Cretaceous (Cenomanian). Muratodinium Drugg, 1970b; Paleocene. Neoeurysphaeridium Slimani, 1994; Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian). (=Eurysphaeridium Wilson in Slimani, 1994; name not validly published; taxonomic junior synonym according to Slimani, 1994, p.77) Operculodinium Wall, 1967; Miocene. ?Pandadinium Courtinat, 1989; Jurassic (Tithonian). Samlandia Eisenack, 1954b; Early Oligocene. (=Palmnickia Eisenack, 1954b; taxonomic junior synonym according to Morgenroth, 1966a, p.40) Silicisphaera Davey and Verdier, 1976; Cretaceous (Senonian). Spongodinium Deflandre, 1936b; Late Cretaceous. Stoveracysta Clowes, 1985; Early Oligocene. Thalassiphora Eisenack and Gocht, 1960; Late Eocene-Early Oligocene. (=Erikania Morgenroth, 1966a; taxonomic junior synonym according to Stover and Evitt, 1978, p.194) (=Subathua Khanna and H.P. Singh, 1980; taxonomic junior synonym according to Lentin and Williams, 1985, p.340) Turbiosphaera Archangelsky, 1969a; Paleocene-Oligocene. Wigginsiella Lucas-Clark, 1987; Cretaceous (Albian).

Parent: Family Gonyaulacaceae part