Articles | Volume 15, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.1144/jm.15.2.150
https://doi.org/10.1144/jm.15.2.150
01 Oct 1996
 | 01 Oct 1996

Protobatioladinium elatmaensis sp. nov., a dinoflagellate cyst from the Bathonian of Russia

James B. Riding and Vera I. Ilyina

Abstract. Protobatioladinium elatmaensis sp. nov. is a distinctive Lower–Middle Bathonian dinoflagellate cyst present, often abundantly, throughout the Russian Platform. The species appears to be a reliable stratigraphical marker and is the oldest representative of the genus.