Islandinium pacificum sp. nov., a new dinoflagellate cyst from the upper Quaternary of the northeast Pacific

• Published in: Palynology
• Main Authors: Gurdebeke, Pieter R., Mertens, Kenneth, Pospelova, Vera, van Nieuwenhove, Nicolas, Louwye, Stephen
• Other Authors: Laboratoire Environnement Ressources de Bretagne Occidentale (LERBO), Unité Littoral (LITTORAL), Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2020
• Subjects: [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]; Canada; Pacific; British Columbia; Vøring Plateau; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-04202327; https://doi.org/10.1080/01916122.2018.1549118

Round brown process-bearing cysts (RBPC) produced by dinoflagellates (Dinophyceae) occur as an important part of assemblage diversities in seafloor sediments worldwide. Here a new species, Islandinium pacificum, is described from surface sediment samples from coastal waters of British Columbia (Cana...