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Ovoidinium indistinctum

Ovoidinium? indistinctum (Cookson and Eisenack, 1974) Lentin and Williams, 1976; Emendation: Riding and Helby, 2001h, p.229–230, as Craspedodinium indistinctum.

Now Craspedodinium. Originally (and now) Craspedodinium, subsequently Ovoidinium?.
Stover and Evitt, 1978, retained this species in Craspedodinium Cookson and Eisenack, 1974.
At the time of the transfer, Lentin and Williams, 1976, questionably included this species in Ovoidinium.

Holotype: Cookson and Eisenack, 1974, pl.25, fig.7
Age: late Albian (as revised by Riding and Helby, 2001h, p.232).

Original diagnosis: Cookson and Eisenack, 1974, p.76: Craspedodinium indistinctum
A Craspedodinium-species, the length/breadth-ratio is slightly variable (L : B = 1.06-1.36 : 1), and the periphragm of which extends with smooth margins distinctly beyond the boundary of the endophragm. The mesh-like ornamentation is conditioned through locale thickenings of the external envelope; it is generally solely developed marginally and is variable both in mesh-width as well as also in expansion. Only on rare occasions is the external envelop perforated marginally. The separation of the apical calotte takes place along a smooth, but irregularly extending separation-line.
Number of available specimens and dimensions: 5 complete specimens and 8 other ones, the apical portions of which are missing. Type: about 103 x 96 Ám, the lengths of the complete specimens lie between 86 and 104 Ám, the breadths between 66 and 96 Ám.
Occurrence: Power House bore, at 640 ft.

Remarks: Cookson and Eisenack, 1974, p.76: Craspedodinium indistinctum
The external envelope projected apparently also on the front and back-side beyond the internal body; it is always creased into large folds.
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