Dictyopyxis reticulata

"reticulata" Valensi, 1953, p.28, pl.2, figs.4-5,14,19; pl.13, fig.6; text-fig.2d ex Sarjeant, 1968, p.230.  Holotype: Valensi, 1953, pl.2, figs.4-5; Fauconnier and Masure, 2004, pl.28, figs.1-4. NOW Epiplosphaera.  Originally Palaeoperidinium (name not validly published), subsequently Dictyopyxis (generic name illegitimate), thirdly Dictyopyxidia, fourthly Ellipsoidictyum, fifthly (and now) Epiplosphaera.  Taxonomic senior synonym: Epiplosphaera bireticulata, by implication in Courtinat (1989, p.176), who believed Palaeoperidinium (as Epiplosphaera) reticulatum to be the senior name - however, Poulsen (1992a, p.66) retained the two species.  The name Palaeoperidinium reticulatum was not validly published in Valensi (1953) since the generic name Palaeoperidinium was not validly published until 1967.  Following I.C.B.N. Article 55.1, the species name Dictyopyxis reticulata is validly published even though the generic name Dictyopyxis is illegitimate.  Age: Bajocian.

Parent: Dictyopyxis_Cookson and Eisenack 1960b_Cookson and Eisenack 1960b