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Impagidinium membranigerum

Impagidinium? membranigerum (Gerlach, 1961) Stover and Evitt 1978

Now Leptodinium. Originally (and now) Leptodinium, subsequently Impagidinium?.
Stover and Evitt, 1978, considered this to be a provisionally accepted species of Impagidinium.
Holotype: Gerlach 1961, pl.26, fig. 1-3 (lost according to Sarjeant, 1984)
Lectotype: Gerlach, 1961, pl.26, fig.7, text-fig.5; Sarjeant, 1984, pl.1, figs.1,3, text-figs.1A-B; Jan du Chêne et al., 1986, pl.67, figs.17-18 (designated by Sarjeant, 1984)
Locus typicus: Emsb³ren boring no. 7, NW Germany
Stratum typicum: Late Oligocene
Translation Gerlach, 1961: Sarjeant, 1984

Original diagnosis: Gerlach, 1961, p. 162-163: Leptodinium membranigerum
A species of the genusLeptodinium with oval theca. Tabulation formula as given in the generic diagnosis; 4", 6", 5""", 1p and 1"""". Epitheca larger and more elongate than the rounded hypotheca. Girdle furrow spiral, formed of six plates. Offset of its ends somewhat more than a furrow breadth. Longitudinal furrow wholly undifferentiated. Sutures of plates marked by low hyaline crests, shell membrane appearing to bear a thornlike point at the position of convergence of two crests. Plates finely granulate, membrane relatively thin.
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