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Sagenodinium franciscanum
Sagenodinium *franciscanum Williams et al., 2015, p.312, pl.2, figs.15–16.
Holotype: Damassa, 1979a, pl.8, fig.8, as Kisselevia crassoramosa.
Age: Eocene.
Original description (Williams et al., 2015)
Diagnosis. A species of Sagenodinium with trabecula and processes of uniform thickness.
Description. A wetzelielloidean species in which the pericyst has a rhomboidal outline with a well-developed apical horns; right antapical horn reduced or absent. The endocyst is ovoidal to quadrate in outline. The periphragm is ornamented with penitabular processes that support a trabecular network; the trabecula and processes are of uniform thickness. Cysts cornu-cavate. The archeopyle is hyperepeliform; perioperculum free; endoarcheopyle smaller in size than periarcheopyle, endoperculum free.
Holotype: Damassa, 1979a, pl.8, fig.8, as Kisselevia crassoramosa.
Age: Eocene.
Original description (Williams et al., 2015)
Diagnosis. A species of Sagenodinium with trabecula and processes of uniform thickness.
Description. A wetzelielloidean species in which the pericyst has a rhomboidal outline with a well-developed apical horns; right antapical horn reduced or absent. The endocyst is ovoidal to quadrate in outline. The periphragm is ornamented with penitabular processes that support a trabecular network; the trabecula and processes are of uniform thickness. Cysts cornu-cavate. The archeopyle is hyperepeliform; perioperculum free; endoarcheopyle smaller in size than periarcheopyle, endoperculum free.