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The dinoflagellate cyst genera Achomosphaera Evitt 1963 and Spiniferites Mantell 1850 in Pliocene to modern sediments: a summary of round table discussions

  • Kenneth Neil Mertens
  • , Nicolas Van Nieuwenhove
  • , Pieter R. Gurdebeke
  • , Hilal Aydin
  • , Kara Bogus
  • , Manuel Bringué
  • , Barrie Dale
  • , Stijn De Schepper
  • , Anne De Vernal
  • , Marianne Ellegaard
  • , Arjen Grothe
  • , Haifeng Gu
  • , Martin J. Head
  • , Maija Heikkilä
  • , Audrey Limoges
  • , Laurent Londeix
  • , Stephen Louwye
  • , Fabienne Marret
  • , Edwige Masure
  • , Kazumi Matsuoka
  • Peta J. Mudie, Aurélie Penaud, Vera Pospelova, Andrea Michelle Price, Sofia Ribeiro, André Rochon, Francesca Sangiorgi, Michael Schreck, Vladimir Torres, Serdar Uzar, Gerard J. M. Versteegh, Sophie Warny, Karin Zonneveld
  • Ifremer, LER BO, Station de Biologie Marine, Place de la Croix, Concarneau CEDEX, France;
  • Department of Earth Sciences, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada
  • Department of Geology, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium;
  • Biology Department, Faculty of Sciences and Arts, Celal Bayar University, Manisa, Turkey;
  • International Ocean Discovery Program, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA;
  • School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
  • University of Oslo
  • Uni Research Climate, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway
  • Département des sciences de la Terre et de l’Atmosphère, Geotop, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada;
  • Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark;
  • Third Institute of Oceanography, SOA, Xiamen, China;
  • Department of Earth Sciences, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada;
  • Environmental Change Research Unit, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, Finland
  • Université de Bordeaux, UMR 5805 EPOC, Pessac CEDEX, France;
  • School of Environmental Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK;
  • CR2P Centre de Recherche sur la Paléobiodiversité et les Paléoenvironnements, UMR7207 – CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, Paris, France;
  • Institute for East China Sea Research (ECSER), Nagasaki, Japan;
  • Geological Survey of Canada, Dartmouth, Canada;
  • UMR6538 Domaines Océaniques, IUEM-UBO, Plouzané, France;
  • Department of Geography, McGill University, Montréal, Canada;
  • Department of Glaciology and Climate, Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), Copenhagen, Denmark;
  • ISMER-UQAR, 310 allée des Ursulines, Rimouski, QC, Canada;
  • Department of Geology, University of Tromsø – The Arctic University, Tromsø, Langnes, Norway;
  • Biostratigraphy Core Group, ExxonMobil Exploration Company, Spring, Texas, USA;
  • Department of Marine Geochemistry, Alfred-Wegener-Institut (AWI), Helmholtz Zentrum für Polar und Meeresforschung, Bremerhaven, Germany;
  • MARUM – Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Bremen University, Bremen, Germany;
  • Department of Geology and Geophysics and Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA;
  • Department of Geoscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark;
  • School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA;

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Abstract

We present a summary of two round-table discussions held during two subsequent workshops in Montreal (Canada) on 16 April 2014 and Ostend (Belgium) on 8 July 2015. Five species of the genus Achomosphaera Evitt 1963 and 33 of the genus Spiniferites Mantell 1850 emend. Sarjeant 1970 occuring in Pliocene to modern sediments are listed and briefly described along with remarks made by workshop participants. In addition, several holotypes and topotypes are reillustrated. Three species previously assigned to Spiniferites are here considered/accepted as belonging to other genera: Impagidinium inaequalis (Wall and Dale in Wall et al. 1973) Londeix et al. 2009, Spiniferites? rubinus (Rossignol 1962 ex Rossignol 1964) Sarjeant 1970, and Thalassiphora balcanica Baltes¸ 1971. This summary forms the basis for a set of papers that follows, where points raised during the workshops are explored in greater detail.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)10-44
JournalPalynology
Volume42
Issue numbersup1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Dec 2018

Keywords

  • Spiniferites
  • Achomosphaera
  • Hafniasphaera
  • Rottnestia
  • Pterocysta

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