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Hexagonifera scabrata

Hexagonifera? scabrata Jain and Taugourdeau-Lantz, 1973; Emendation: Khowaja-Ateequzzaman and Garg, 2004a, p.13–14.

NOW Ovoidinium. Originally Hexagonifera, subsequently Leberidocysta?, thirdly Hexagonifera?, fourthly (and now) Ovoidinium.
Mehrotra and Sarjeant, 1984, questionably retained the species in Hexagonifera. Lentin and Williams, 1985, questionably retained it in Leberidocysta Stover and Evitt, 1978.

Holotype: Jain and Taugourdeau-Lantz, 1973, pl.4, fig.11
Age: Early Cretaceous

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Emendation (Khowaja-Ateequzzaman and Garg, 2004a)
1973 hexagonifera scrabata Jain & Taugourdeau-Lantz: 64, pl. 4, figs 11-12
1977 H. scrabata Jain & Taugourdeau-Lantz in Jain : 179, pl. 4, fig. 46
1978 Leberidocysta ? scrabata (Jain & Taugourdeau-Lantz) Stover & Evitt : 60

Emended diagnosis : Cyst spherical to sub-spherical, without apical or antapical horns ; proximate, two-layered ; periphragm spnongeous, fibre-like covering extending 4-6 µm beyong shell, variably develeoped, endophragm thick, about 4-5 µm, scarbrate ; endophragm and periphargm appressd, sometimes periphargm covers endophragm loosely, leaving irregularly developed pericoels; paratabulation indicated by archeopyle alone and occasionally by poarasutural thinning, archeopyle combination type 4A31, with hexa 2a, operculum simple, free or attached along the archeopyle suture 1’ –as; cyst size range 50-80 µm.
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