APPENDIX

Acanthaulax? sp.

Remarks: This taxon superficially resembles Operculodinium israelianum, but differs by having processes arranged along sutural or penitabular rows. It is provisionally assigned to Acanthaulax. Similar forms have been recorded in the Mediterranean Neogene (Zevenboom, 1995).

 

Achomosphaera andalousiensis

 

Aireiana verrucos

 

Algidasphaeridium minutum var. cezare

 

Algidasphaeridium minutum var. minutum

 

Amiculosphaera umbracula

 

Apteodinium australiense

 

Areoligera? semicirculata

 

Areoligera spp. (pars)

 

Ataxiodinium choane

 

Ataxiodinium confusum

 

Batiacasphaera spp.

 

Bitectatodinium tepekiense

 

Brigantedinium spp.

 

Caligodinium pychnum

 

Caligodinium spp. (pars)

 

Cannosphaeropsis sp. A

Remarks: This rather large species of Cannosphaeropsis is foremost characterized by having broad distal rims connecting gonal processes; occasionally small spines are developed along the outer rims.

 

Cannosphaeropsis spp. (pars)

 

Cerebrocysta poulsenii

 

Cerebrocysta sp. A

Remarks: This species of Cerebrocysta is characterized by being large, by having a 2P archaeopyle (loss of 2" + 3"), and by developing cerebral rugulae of intermediate size. Similar forms have been recorded in the Mediterranean Middle Miocene as Cerebrocysta powellii ms (Zevenboom, 1995).

 

Cerebrocysta spp. (pars)

 

Chiropteridium spp

 

Cleistosphaeridium spp.

 

Cooksonidium capricornum

 

Cordosphaeridium cantharellum

 

Cordosphaeridium fibrospinosum

 

Cordosphaeridium minimum

 

Cordosphaeridium spp. (pars)

 

Corrudinium harlandii

 

Corrudinium incompositum

 

Cribroperidinium spp.

 

Dalella chathamensis

 

Dapsilidinium spp.

 

Deflandrea antarctica group

 

Deflandrea convexa group

 

Deflandrea phosphoritica group

 

Dinopterygium spp.

 

Diphyes colligerum

 

Diphyes ficusoides

 

Distatodinium biffii

 

Distatodinium spp. (pars)

 

Ectosphaeropsis burdigalensis

 

Edwardsiella sexispinosum

 

Emmetrocysta urnaformis

 

Enneadocysta partridgei

 

Eocladopyxis spp.

 

Eurydinium spp.

 

Filisphaera spp.

 

Gelatia inflata

 

Glaphyrocysta spp.

 

Gramocysta verricula

 

Habibacysta tectata

 

Hemiplacophora semilunifera

 

Histiocysta spp.

 

Heteraulacacysta spp.

 

Homotryblium spp.

 

Hystrichokolpoma cinctum

 

Hystrichokolpoma pusilla

 

Hystrichokolpoma rigaudiae group

 

Hystrichokolpoma salacia group

 

Hystrichokolpoma sp. cf. Homotryblium oceanicum (Wilsphaar et al., 1996)

 

Hystrichokolpoma sp. A

Remarks: This species of Hystrichokolpoma is characterized by its relatively small size and by typically having poorly developed, deflated hollow penitabular processes.

 

Hystrichosphaeropsis spp.

 

Hystrichostrogylon spp.

 

Hystrichosphaeridium spp.

 

Impagidinium aculeatum

 

Impagidinium dispertitum

 

Impagidinium japonicum

 

Impagidinium maculatum

 

Impagidinium pallidum

 

Impagidinium paradoxum

 

Impagidinium patulum

 

Impagidinium sphaericum

 

Impagidinium strialatum

 

Impagidinium victorianum

 

Impagidinium velorum

 

Impagidinium spp. (pars)

 

Invertocysta spp.

 

Labyrinthodinium truncatum

 

Lejeunecysta spp.

 

Lingulodinium machaerophorum

 

Lophocysta spp.

 

Melitasphaeridium choanophorum

 

Melitasphaeridium pseudorecurvatum

 

Membranilarnacia? picenum

 

Membranilarnacia? sp.

Remarks: This taxon is provisionally placed in Membranilarnacia in view of it having an ectophragm distally connecting process complexes and an apical archaeopyle involving the loss of 1' - 4'. General shape, size, and process distribution suggests affinity with Schematophora.

 

Mendicodinium sp. A, Wrenn and Kokinos, 1986

 

Nematosphaeropsis spp.

 

Octodinium askiniae

 

Operculodinium echigoense sensu McMinn, 1992

 

Operculodinium janduchenei

 

Operculodinium microtrianum

 

Operculodinium piaseckii

 

Operculodinium spp. (pars)

 

Pentapharsodinium dalei cysts

 

Pentadinium laticinctum

 

Phthanoperidinium comatum

 

Phthanoperidinium filigranum

 

Phthanoperidinium spp.

 

Polysphaeridium spp.

 

Pyxidinopsis spp.

 

Reticulatosphaera actinocoronata

 

Rhombodinium spp.

 

Samlandia chlamydophora

 

Schematophora speciosa

 

Selenopemphix brevispinosum

 

Selenopemphix nephroides

 

Selenopemphix quanta

 

Spiniferites pseudofurcatus

 

Spiniferites mirabilis

 

Spiniferites cf. mirabilis

Remarks: This taxon resembles S. mirabilis, but differs by having a much larger size range (up to 120 µm) and by less well defined and developed processes.

 

Spiniferites spp.

 

Stelladinium stellatum

 

Stoveracysta ornata

 

Stoveracysta cf. conerae

Remarks: this taxon resembles S. conerae, but differs by having a smaller size range (up to 60 µm) and by relatively high penitabular ornamentations.

 

Svalbardella spp.

 

Tectatodinium spp.

 

Thalassiphora pelagica

 

Trinovantedinium applanatum

 

Tuberculodinium vancampoae

 

Wetzeliella gochtii/symmetrica group