Palynodinium helveticum Kirsch, 1991

Holotype: Kirsch, 1991, pl.18, figs.6-8
Locus typicus: Marienstein, Bavaria
Stratum typicum: Lower-middle Campanian
Translation Kirsch, 1991: LPP

Original diagnosis: Kirsch, 1991, p.95
Marginate, two-layered cyst with two typical tube-like appendages. Endophragm and periphragm smooth. Periphragm produced into the tube-like appendages, bearing hollow, slender, distally bifurcate processes. Free ends blunted and widened. Archaeopyle apical ([tA]); operculum secate.

Original description: Kirsch, 1991, p.95
Marginate, two-layered cyst with a subsphaeroidal central body, endophragm thick and smooth, periphragm thinner and smooth. Periphragm produced into tube-like appendages bearing slender, usually solid processes. Processes furcate or distally bifid or capitate. Processes restricted to dorsal, antapical regions, missing on midventral side. Processes may by extended in the antapical region. Appendages run lateral from antapical to archaeopyle margin.
Tabulation: 4", ?5-6"", ?6""", ?p, 1"""". Archaeopyle apical ([tA]), operculum secate.