Dinophyceae - Peridiniales - Deflandreaceae
Full reference: A. Eisenack. 1954. Mikrofossilien aus Phosphoriten des Samlandischen Unteroligozans und uber die einheitlichkeit der Hystrichosphaerideen. Palaeontographica 105(3-6):49-95
Parent taxon: Peridiniales according to Eisenack 1954
Sister taxa: Aireiana, Angustidinium, Arachnodinium, Barssidinium, Bitorus, Blysmatodinium, Herendeenia, Laciniadinium, Multispinula, Noricysta, Octodinium, Pentapharsodinium, Peridiniaceae, Protoperidiniaceae, Rhabdothorax, Shublikodinium, Stoveracysta, Susadinium, Tectatodinium, Tuberculodinium
Subtaxa: Abratopdinium Kisselovia Palaeocystodinium Spinidinium
Ecology: "photoautotroph"
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Southern Ocean (1 collection)
• Miocene of Belgium (1), Southern Ocean (8), United States (1: Maryland)
• Oligocene of Azerbaijan (1), Southern Ocean (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (2), United States (1: Virginia)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1), New Zealand (1), United States (9: Missouri)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (10), Argentina (18), Canada (3: Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut), New Zealand (1)
Total: 59 collections including 75 occurrences