Subfamily Pyrodinioideae

Subfamily Pyrodinioideae

Citation: Pyrodinioideae Fensome et al. 1993b. Diagnosis:Goniodomaceans in which the posterior sulcal homologue and right sulcal homologue are within the sulcus, and which have fossilizable cysts. Type genus: Pyrodinium Plate 1906. Extant genus: Pyrodinium Plate 1906. Fossil genera: Alisocysta Stover and Evitt 1978; Paleocene (Danian). (=Agerasphaera Harland 1979a; nomenclatural junior synonym, having same type) Biconidinium Islam 1983c; Early Eocene. Capisocysta Warny and Wrenn 1997; Miocene-Holocene. Dinopterygium Deflandre 1935; Late Cretaceous (Senonian). (=Oodnadattia Eisenack and Cookson 1960; taxonomic junior synonym - see Lentin and Williams, 1989, p.265) (=Toolongia Cookson and Eisenack 1960a; taxonomic junior synonym according to Stover and Evitt 1978, p.205) Eisenackia Deflandre and Cookson 1955; Paleocene-Early Eocene. Eocladopyxis Morgenroth 1966a; Early Eocene. Geonettia de Verteuil and Norris 1996b; Late Miocene. Homotryblium Davey and Williams 1966b; Early Eocene. Hystrichosphaeridium Deflandre 1937b; ?Late Cretaceous. Polysphaeridium Davey and Williams 1966b; Early Eocene. (=Hemicystodinium Wall 1967; taxonomic junior synonym according to Bujak et al. 1980b, p.34) ?Taleisphaera Duxbury 1979a; Cretaceous (Barremian). Tubidermodinium Morgenroth 1966a; Early Eocene.

Family Goniodomaceae part 1