A new genus and two new species of dinoflagellate cysts from lower Eocene marine sediments of the Wilkes Land Margin, Antarctica

• Main Authors: Bijl, Peter K., Brinkhuis, Henk
• Other Authors: Marine palynology and palaeoceanography, Marine Palynology
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Antarctic Margin; Biostratigraphy; Early Eocene; Organic walled dinoflagellate cyst taxonomy; Palaeontology; Ecology; Evolution; Behavior and Systematics; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Wilkes Land; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/329918

Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 318 recovered lower Eocene sediments in Hole U1356A from the continental rise of the Wilkes Land Margin, Antarctica. These sediments yielded a new genus of organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts (. Adeliesphaera gen. nov.). We tentatively place this n...