New dinoflagellate cyst and acritarch taxa from the Pliocene and Pleistocene of the eastern North Atlantic (DSDP site 610)

Journal of Systematic Palaeontology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 101-117

  De Schepper, Stijn ^a,c   Head, Martin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Marine; Neogene; Palynology; Quaternary; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ACRITARCH; ADAPTATION; CENOZOIC; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOTYPE; NEOGENE; NEW SPECIES; PALYNOLOGY; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; STRATIGRAPHY; TAXONOMY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

ACRITARCHA; CYMATIOSPHAERA; DINOPHYCEAE; IMPAGIDINIUM; OPERCULODINIUM;

EID: 43249099160     PISSN: 14772019     EISSN: 14780941     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1477201907002167     Document Type: Article

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