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Ctenidodinium combazii

Ctenidodinium combazii Dupin, 1968, p.2, pl.1, figs.1-6; text-figs.1-4.

Woollam (1983, p.193) considered Gonyaulax (as Hystrichogonyaulax) cornigera to be the possible taxonomic senior synonym of this species.

Holotype: Dupin, 1968, pl.1, figs.4-5.
Age: Mid-Late Bathonian.

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

Ctenidodinium combazii Dupin, 1968. According to Woollam (1983), this species may be conspecific with Hystrichogonyaulax (now Ctenidodinium) cornigera. The species is characterised by the presence on the sutures of membranes which distally are very ornamented, and bear long, simple bifurcate spines. Some spines can be more complex being trifurcate distally. Size: 126-135 µm, crests 9-22 µm.
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