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Ginginodinium evittii

Ginginodinium evittii Singh, 1983, p.135–136, pl.46, figs.7–10.

NOW Trithyrodinium singhii. Originally Ginginodinium evittii, subsequently (and now) Trithyrodinium singhii.

Holotype: Singh, 1983, pl.46, fig.7
Locus typicus: Upper Shaftesbury Formation of the Peace River area
Stratum typicum: Early Cenomanian

Original description: Singh, 1983, p. 135
Proximate, peridinioid, cornucavate cysts with one short apical and two short, unequal antapical horns; apical horn 3-7 µm long, 2-4 µm wide, and with a blunt tip; the longer antapical horn conical, pointed, 2-4 µm long, and situated on the left side; the right antapical horn vestigial, frequently not developed; endophragm and periphragm thin, closely appressed except at the base of the horns (cornucavate); periphragm densely spinulose; spinules about 0.5 µm long; paratabulation not clearly discernible; paracingulum slightly helicoidal, 4-6 µm wide, and delineated by low, parallel, transverse, equatorial ridges; ventral ends of the paracingulum offset by about one paracingular width; parasulcus poorly delimited by a shallow depression narrowing anteriorly on the ventral hypocyst; archeopyle intercalary, type 3I; operculum free, composed of three disassociated paraplates la, 2a, and 3a of the appressed layers of endophragm and periphragm.
Size range: Length of the pericyst 37(49)59 µm. Holotype 54 µm. Breadth of the pericyst 30(39)47 µm. Holotype 41 µm. Specimens measured 55.
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