Phylum Dinoflagellata Engl. (1903)
see Superclass Dinoflagellata Bütschli, 1885
Subphylum Dinokaryota Fensome, F.J.R. Taylor, G. Norris, Sarjeant, Wharton & G.L. Williams (1993)
Class Dinophyceae Pascher (1914)
Subclass Peridiniphycidae Fensome, F.J.R. Taylor, G. Norris, Sarjeant, Wharton & G.L. Williams (1993)
Genus †Palaeohystrichodinium Chengquan He, Shenzhao Zhu & Guangxing Jin (1989), incertae sedis