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Peridinium ponticum

Peridinium ponticum Wall and Dale, 1973

Lentin and Williams, 1985 transferred this species to Protoperidinium

Holotype: Wall and Dale, 1973, pl.1, figs.16-17
Locus typicus: Black Sea, core 1451 G, 6 - 7 cm
Stratum typicum: Late Quaternary

Original diagnosis: Wall and Dale, 1973, p.24
Dinoflagellate cysts with typically peridinioid to subspherical shape; a large, hexagonal, dorsal, intercalary archeopyle, and ornamentation of numerous, short, delicate spines and interspersed submicron-sized tubercules.
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