Wilsonidium pechoricum new species - A new dinoflagellate species with unusual asymmetry from the Paleocene/Eocene transition

Journal of Paleontology

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1020-1030

  Iakovleva, Alina I ^a,b   Heilmann Clausen, Claus ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRY; DINOFLAGELLATE; EOCENE; FOSSIL; HYPSITHERMAL; MORPHOLOGY; NEW SPECIES; PALEOCENE; PALEOECOLOGY;

APECTODINIUM; DINOPHYCEAE; PROTISTA;

EID: 34948853195     PISSN: 00223360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/pleo05-120.1     Document Type: Article

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