Operational taxonomy and (paleo-)autecology of round, brown, spiny dinoflagellate cysts from the Quaternary of high northern latitudes

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 98, Issue , 2013, Pages 41-57

  Radi, Taoufik ^a,b   Bonnet, Sophie ^b   Cormier, Marc André ^b   de Vernal, Anne ^b   Durantou, Lise ^c   Faubert, Étienne ^c   Head, Martin J ^d   Henry, Maryse ^b   Pospelova, Vera ^e   Rochon, André ^c   Van Nieuwenhove, Nicolas ^b,f  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE LA MER DE RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^d BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^f GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Determination key; Echinidinium; Islandinium; Paleoecology; Round brown spiny cysts; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

AUTECOLOGY; DINOFLAGELLATE CYST; IDENTIFICATION KEY; LATITUDE; MARINE SEDIMENT; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOECOLOGY; QUATERNARY; TAXONOMY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

DINOPHYCEAE; ECHINIDINIUM; OBLEA; PHEOPOLYKRIKOS HARTMANNII; POLYKRIKOS; PROTOPERIDINIUM;

EID: 84872394253     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2012.11.001     Document Type: Article

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