Tectatodinium pellitum

*pellitum Wall, 1967, p.113, pl.16, figs.11-12.  Emendation: Head, 1994a, p.308,310 Holotype: Wall, 1967, pl.16, fig.12; Head, 1994a, pl.1, figs.1-9.  Taxonomic junior synonym: Tectatodinium grande, according to Head (1994a, p.308); Tectatodinium rugulatum, questionably according to Head (1994a, p.308), and according to Head and Nøhr-Hansen (1999, p.577).  Motile equivalent: Gonyaulax spinifera (Claparède and Lachmann, 1859) Diesing, 1866, according to Wall and Dale (1967, p.352; 1968c, p.270) and Dodge (1989, p.289).  Age: Miocene-Holocene.

Parent: Tectatodinium