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Dodekovia reticulata

Dodekovia reticulata Below, 1987

Now Pareodinia?. Originally Dodekovia, subsequently (and now) Pareodinia?.
Holotype: Below 1987, pl.15, fig.11-15
Locus typicus: Knerton Hill, DeGeerdalen, Spitsbergen
Stratum typicum: Toarcian
Translation Below, 1987: Translation Bureau, Secretary of State Canada, 1988

Original description: Below, 1987, p. 119
Arrangement of vesicles/plates on the dinoflagellate amphiesma cop, pop, cap, 5", 3a, 6""-7"", 7c, 5""", 2"""", as, z, y, ps; 1"""" and 2"""" located symmetrically on either sode of the dorsoventral plane. Cystic habit proximate, acavate, sphaeoidal, ovaloidal, cingulum not reflected, therefore no visible seperation of epicyst and hypocyst, or elongate ovaloidal with an occasional indistinct cingular indentation, then the epicyst and hypocyst approximately the same size, equatorial cross-section circular; size small; wall composed of thin pedium, luxuria an irregular reticulum with variable mesh size supported by very low columellae, also loosely condensed reticulum possible to form a nearly continuous outer surface, nonareate; areation formular NR/PR, NR", NR1a, 2a(arch), NR3a, NR"", NRc/Xc, with monoareate, secate operculum with a deltaform fastigiate shape, opercular formula 2a(s).
Dimensions of holotype: Length 33 Ám, breadth 28 Ám, thickness 28 Ám.
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