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Capillicysta

From Williams et al., 2017:

[Capillicysta, Matsuoka and Bujak in Matsuoka et al., 1987, p. 226; Emendation: de Verteuil and Norris, 1992, p. 397-398

Type: Capillicysta fusca, Matsuoka et al., 1987 (pl.1, figs.1-2)]

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Original Description: [Matsuoka and Bujak, 1987]:

Diagnosis:
Proximochorate cyst, cornucavate, moderately compressed dorsoventrally, peridinioid with one apical horn and usually two symmetrically developed antapical horns. Cyst wall pigmented brownish, comprising thin periphragm with spinose ornament and thick endophragm. Paratabulation indeterminate, incompletely indicated by parasutures, archeopyle, paracingulum and sometimes parasulcus. Archeopyle hexa-intercalary, formed by the loss of paraplate 2a.

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Notes:

G.L. Williams short notes on species, Mesozoic-Cenozoic dinocyst course, Urbino, Italy, May 17-22, 1999 - LPP VIEWER CD-ROM 99.5.

Capillicysta Matsuoka and Bujak in Matsuoka et al., 1987. Peridinioid with one apical and usually two, symmetrically developed antapical horns. Cyst wall brown, with thin, spinose periphragm and thick endophragm. Paratabulation incompletely indicated by parasutures. Archeopyle hexa 2a.
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