New Albian to Cenomanian (Cretaceous) dinoflagellate cyst taxa of ovoidinioid affinities from East Greenland, the Barents Sea and England

• Main Authors: Nøhr-Hansen, Henrik, Costa, Lucy I., Pearce, Martin A., Alsen, Peter
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2017
• Subjects: Medicine; Microbiology; FOS Biological sciences; Molecular Biology; Evolutionary Biology; 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified; FOS Earth and related environmental sciences; 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified; FOS Chemical sciences; Ecology; Sociology; FOS Sociology; Immunology; FOS Clinical medicine; 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified; Inorganic Chemistry; Plant Biology; Computational Biology; Barents Sea; Greenland; East Greenland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5346112; https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/dataset/New_Albian_to_Cenomanian_Cretaceous_dinoflagellate_cyst_taxa_of_ovoidinioid_affinities_from_East_Greenland_the_Barents_Sea_and_England/5346112

Palyno-biostratigraphical studies of upper Albian-Lower Cenomanian successions from East Greenland, the south-western Barents Sea and south-eastern England have revealed new dinoflagellate cyst taxa of clear or questioned ovoidinioid affinities. This paper describes the new genus Sindridinium , four new species – Ovoidinium epelidosphaeroides sp. nov., Epelidosphaeridia manifesta sp. nov., Sindridinium borealis gen. et sp. nov. and Sindridinium anaanae gen. et sp. nov. – and proposes a new combination, Sindridinium? torulosa comb. nov. (formerly Canningia torulosa ). The genus Epelidosphaeridia is emended based on features seen in E. manifesta sp. nov., which demonstrate peridiniacean affinities and support inclusion in the Ovoidinioideae. Morphological gradations between Epelidosphaeridia spinosa, E. manifesta sp. nov. and Ovoidinium epelidosphaeroides sp. nov., suggest close phylogenetic relationships, also postulated between Sindridinium? torulosa comb. nov., S. borealis gen. et sp. nov. and S. anaanae gen. et sp. nov. The stratigraphic ranges of the taxa described are calibrated to known dinoflagellate markers and mid-Cretaceous ammonites.