Subfamily Palaeoperidinioideae

Subfamily Palaeoperidinioideae

Citation: Palaeoperidinioideae ( Vozzhennikova 1961) Bujak and Davies 1983. Diagnosis:Peridiniaceans in which the episomal tabulation is bipesioid and the Kofoid second anterior intercalary plate is hexa (i.e. six-sided). The cyst is organic-walled. The archeopyle involves anterior intercalary plates and precingular plates and sometimes also the dorsal third apical plate. Type genus: Palaeoperidinium Deflandre 1934; fossil - Late Cretaceous. Fossil genera: Chichaouadinium Below 1981a; Cretaceous (Albian). Colonsaydinium Hunt in Hunt et al. 1985; Late Quaternary. ?Diconodinium Eisenack and Cookson 1960; Cretaceous (Santonian). Dioxya Cookson and Eisenack 1958; Cretaceous (Albian). Geiselodinium Krutzsch 1962; Mid Eocene. (=Cubiculosphaera Harris 1974; taxonomic junior synonym according to Stover and Evitt, 1978, p.230-231) Ginginodinium Cookson and Eisenack 1960a; Cretaceous (Albian-Cenomanian). ?Indosphaera Kumar 1986b; Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian). Jinhudinium Qian Zeshu et al. 1986; Paleocene-Eocene. Laciniadinium McIntyre 1975; Cretaceous (Campanian). (=Sinocysta He Chengquan 1984a; taxonomic junior synonym according to Chen et al., 1988, p.28) Luxadinium Brideaux and McIntyre 1975; Cretaceous (Albian). Nanshadinium He Chengquan and Sun Xuekun 1991; Quaternary. Palaeohystrichophora Deflandre 1935; Cretaceous (Senonian). Palaeoperidinium Deflandre 1934; Late Cretaceous. (=Astrocysta Davey 1970; taxonomic junior synonym according to Lentin and Williams, 1976, p.150) (=Pentagonum Vozzhennikova 1963 ex Vozzhennikova 1967; homonym; taxonomic junior synonym according to Lentin and Williams, 1976, p.161) ?Phthanoperidinium Drugg and Loeblich Jr. 1967; Oligocene. Saeptodinium Harris 1974; Paleocene. Sanshuia Yu Jingxian et al. 1981; Late Cretaceous. Soaniella Vozzhennikova 1967; Eocene-Early Oligocene. Subtilisphaera Jain and Millepied 1973; Cretaceous (Aptian). Teneridinium Krutzsch 1962; Eocene. Vectidinium Liengjarern et al. 1980; Late Eocene-Early Oligocene. Williamsidinium Lentin 1983; Cretaceous (Maastrichtian).

Family Peridiniaceae part 3