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A review of rare and less well known extant marine organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst taxa of the orders Gonyaulacales and Suessiales from the Northern Hemisphere
Limoges, A.; Van Nieuwenhove, N.; Head, M.J.; Mertens, K.N.; Pospelova, V.; Rochon, A. (2020). A review of rare and less well known extant marine organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst taxa of the orders Gonyaulacales and Suessiales from the Northern Hemisphere. Mar. Micropaleontol. 159: 101801. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2019.101801
In: Marine Micropaleontology. Elsevier: Amsterdam; New York; Oxford; Tokyo. ISSN 0377-8398; e-ISSN 1872-6186, more
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Keywords
    Gonyaulacales [WoRMS]; Suessiales [WoRMS]
    Marine/Coastal
Author keywords
    Dinoflagellate cysts; Gonyaulacales; Suessiales; Marine sediment; Quaternary

Authors  Top 
  • Limoges, A.
  • Van Nieuwenhove, N.
  • Head, M.J.
  • Mertens, K.N., more
  • Pospelova, V.
  • Rochon, A.

Abstract
    Dinoflagellate resting cysts with rare exception produce the only discrete link between the biology of extant dinoflagellate species and their fossil record. The geological preservability of such cysts allows them to be used for quantitative paleoecological reconstructions, especially in the Quaternary, and for biostratigraphy and the calibration of molecular clocks with the geological record. This contribution reviews and updates the taxonomy of 27 uncommon dinoflagellate cyst species and morphotypes belonging to the orders Gonyaulacales and Suessiales with occurrences in upper Quaternary marine sediments of the Northern Hemisphere. Comparative descriptions and illustrations are provided along with the biological affinity of each taxon where known and lowest stratigraphic occurrence.

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