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Answers.com (previously GuruNet), New York City & Jerusalem:
Coccolithophorida.
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Assure Controls, Inc., Vista, California: What is a Dinoflagellate?
Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley: Introduction to the Dinoflagellata.
The Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem (BGBM): German speaking diatomists.
Ian Boomer (University of Newcastle), and Giles Miller (Natural History Museum, London): Micropalaeontological Web Sites.
britanica.com: dinoflagellate. Encyclopædia Britannica article. See also: Protozoan, General features.
Tony Butcher,
School of Earth & Environmental Sciences, Portsmouth:
Chitinozoans....what
are they?
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Thomas P. Dolley, U.S. Geological Survey: Diatomite Statistics and Information. See also DIATOMITE (PDF file).
Danielle Drayton, Department of Biology, University of Miami: Welcome to the Fascinating World of Phylum Dinoflagellata (now via wayback archive). Information about dinoflagellate morphology, life history and evolution of dinoflagellates.
! Susanne Feist-Burkhardt, Andrew S. Henderson and Iona McLachlan, The Natural History Museum, London: Duxbury (1983) database of Cretaceous dinoflagellate cysts. The database contains new, high quality colour images of Stanley Duxbury's (1983) type and figured specimens, from the Micropalaeontology Collections of the NHM. In addition to transmitted light images using Differential Interference Contrast, specimens were imaged using Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (CLSM). See also here.
J. Hill and K. Davis, Geology Rocks:
The
Use Of Diatoms As Palaeoenvironmental Indicators.
Now provided by the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.
Rob Fensome, Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic), Andrew MacRae, and Graham Williams, Dinoflagellate Classification Database (DINOFLAJ): Bibliographical references.
Rob Fensome, Andrew MacRae, and Graham Williams, Project of the Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic): Dinoflagellate Classification Database (DINOFLAJ). DINOFLAJ is a database system containing a current classification of fossil and living dinoflagellates down to generic rank, and an index of fossil dinoflagellates at generic, specific, and infraspecific ranks.
Kenneth L. Finger, Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, CA: What Are Microfossils?
Anthony G. Futcher, Columbia Union College, Maryland: Plant Diversity. A lot of facts about plant groups, fungi, plant-like protists, and monerans, including taxonomy, life cycles, general structure, and representative genera. Go to: Division Pyrrophyta - Dinoflagellates and Cryptomonads.
The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP): Micropaleontological Reference Centers. MRCs provide scientists with an opportunity to examine microfossils of various geologic ages, and from a globally distributed set of locations.
The International Research Group on Charophytes (IRGC). The aims of IRGC are to promote and coordinate international cooperation in charophyte research, including living and fossil material of all geological periods, and to encourage the integration and synthesis of all aspects of both botanical and paleobotanical study of charophytes.
International Society for Diatom Research (ISDR). Go to: Links to other sites.
Jérémy Jacob et al.: New insights into the chemical composition of chitinozoans. Abstract, Organic Geochemistry Article in Press (2007), 17 p.
Harold L. Levin, Washington University, St. Louis: The Earth Through Time. Book announcement. Go to: Seventh Edition, Chapter 12, Life of the Mesozoic. Website by Pamela J. W. Gore, Georgia Perimeter College, Clarkston, GA. See also: Mesozoic Life in the Seas.
Svenolov Lindgren, Stockholm University: Dinoflagellates. See also: Lindgren Labs for Paleontology & Biology. Provides information e.g. about peridinioid dinoflagellates from the Upper Cretaceous of Trelleborg, southern Sweden.
Jere H. Lipps, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California Berkeley, CA (The Cushman Foundation for Foraminiferal Research): Fossil Prokaryotes and Protists: a Slide Set. The Cushman Foundation, a non-profit public foundation, was founded for the purpose of publishing results of research on Foraminiferida and allied organisms.
The Low Latitudes Dinoflagellates Working Group. (part of the American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists).
S.G. Lucas (2018): Permian-Triassic Charophytes: Distribution, Biostratigraphy and Biotic Events. Abstract, Journal of Earth Science, 29: 778–793.
! Fabienne Marret and Karin A. F. Zonneveld (Pangaea, Network for Geological and Environmental Data): Atlas of modern organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst distribution (PDF file). This atlas summarises the global distribution of extant organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts in the form of 61 maps illustrated by the relative abundance of individual cyst taxa in recent marine sediments. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Volume 125, Issues 1-2, Pages 1-200, (2003).
A. Martín-González et al. (2009): Double fossilization in eukaryotic microorganisms from Lower Cretaceous amber. Open access, BMC Biol., 7.
R. Mathieu et al.: Manuel de Micropaléontologie . (in French). The Handbook of Micropaleontology. See also here (in PDF).
Kevin McCartney, Northern Maine Museum of Science, University of Maine, Presque Isle, ME: Silicoflagellates.
Andrew MacRae, Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, University of Calgary: What is paleopalynology?, Go to: Dinoflagellates.
K. Matsuoka, Laboratory of Coastal Environmental Science Faculty of Fisheries, Nagasaki University, and Y. Fukoyo Asian Natural Environmental Science Center, University of Tokyo (2000): Technical guide for modern dinoflagellate cyst study. PDF file.
! L.K. Medlin (2009): Diatoms (Bacillariophyta). PDF file, In: S.B. Hedges and S. Kumar (eds.): The Timetree of Life (see here).
The Micropalaeontological Society (TMS): The Silicofossil Group, Links.
Giles Miller (website hosted by Natural History Museum, London): Curator of Micropalaeontology´s Blog.
!
The Nannotax website
(created by J.R. Young, P.R. Bown and J.A. Lees, International Nannoplankton Association).
This website aims to provide an authoritative guide to the biodiversity and taxonomy of coccolithophores - a beautiful group
of microscopic planktonic algae with an abundant fossil record.
It is both a working tool for specialists and a reference source for anyone looking for information
on coccolithophores.
Website awarded with the Golden
Trilobite 2014.
Nikon Microscopy: Digital Image Galleries Including diatoms and radiolarians.
North American Diatom Symposium (NADS). Being held on 23-27 September 2009 at the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory in northwest Iowa. The North American Diatom Symposium is held every two years at field stations throughout North America and is the premier venue for all aspects of diatom research.
Charles J. O´Kelly and and Tim Littlejohn: Peridinium. The Protist Image Database.
Matthew Olney, Micropalaeontology Unit, University College, London (now at Northern Illinois University, U.S.A.):
An insight into micropalaeontology.
The purpose of this site is to provide an introduction to the subject of micropalaeontology based
on microfossil images. Use the dark blue text to navigate
around the site. Go to:
Palynology.
Spores and Pollen.
Acritarchs and Chitinozoa.
Dinoflagellates.
Diatoms.
See also:
The Link Page,
containing an alphabetical list of links that may be of interest or use to anyone
searching the world wide web on the subject of micropalaeontology.
Florentin Paris and Danièle Bernard, Géosciences, Université de Rennes I, France: Chitinozoans - List of species. Alphabetic list of chitinozoan species (sub-species and "varieties") described up to now.
S.M. Porter (2004):
The
fossil record of early eukaryotic diversification. In PDF,
Paleontological Society Papers, 10: 35-50.
Still available via Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
See also
here.
Note figure 1: A current view of eukaryote phylogeny, based on a consensus of molecular and
ultrastructural data.
The Latz Research Laboratory,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San
Diego, Dinoflagellates:
This section describes the life
history and ecology of dinoflagellates, and explains how and why they produce
bioluminescence.
Snapshot provided by the Internet Archive´s Wayback Machine.
P.A. Sims et al. (2006):
Evolution of the diatoms: insights from fossil,
biological and molecular data.
PDF file, Phycologia 45: 361–402.
This expired link
is available through the Internet Archive´s
Wayback Machine.
!
J. Sremac et al. (2024):
Marine
microfossils: Tiny archives of ocean changes through deep time. Free access,
AIMS Microbiology, 10: 644–673.
DOI: 10.3934/microbiol.2024030.
Note figure 15: The summary of the applications of microfossils in biostratigraphy,
paleoecology and the study of raw materials.
"... The most common marine fossil groups studied by micropaleontologists are cyanobacteria,
coccolithophores, dinoflagellates, diatoms, silicoflagellates, radiolarians, foraminifers,
red and green algae, ostracods, and pteropods
[...] By studying microfossils, paleontologists depict the age of the rock and
identify depositional environments ..."
P. Roger Sweets, Biology Department, University of Indianapolis: Paleolimnology & Diatom Home Pages. Web pages concentrating on the science of paleolimnology and of general interest to diatomists and other phycologists.
SYNTHESYS: Swedish Museum of Natural History, Research and collections, Ingeborg Soulie-Marsche. About modern and fossil Charophytes.
! Fabienne Marret and Karin A. F. Zonneveld (page hosted by PANGAEA) Dino-Atlas. Atlas of modern organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst distribution (PDF file). Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, Volume 125, Issues 1-2, Pages 1-200; 2003. This Atlas summarises the global distribution of extant organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts in the form of 61 maps illustrated by the relative abundance of individual cyst taxa in recent marine sediments from the Atlantic Ocean and adjacent basins, the Antarctic region (South Atlantic, south-western Pacific and southern Indian Ocean sections), the Arabian Sea and the north-western Pacific.
! A.M.F. Tomescu et al. (2016): Microbes and the fossil record: selected topics in paleomicrobiology. Abstract, in: Hurst C. (ed.) Their World: A Diversity of Microbial Environments. Advances in Environmental Microbiology, vol 1: 69-169. See also here (in PDF).
Unit of Micropalaeontology, University College, London (website written, designed and produced by Matthew Olney, University College, London, U.K., now at Northern Illinois University, U.S.A.): MIRACLE, the Microfossil Image Recovery And Circulation for Learning and Education web-site. Go to: Dinoflagellates.
B. van de Schootbrugge et al. 2024):
Recognition
of an extended record of euglenoid cysts: Implications for the end-Triassic mass extinction.
Free access, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 322.
Note figure 1: Reconstructed palaeographic map of the Triassic-Jurassic boundary interval.
"... We conclude that Chomotriletes is the valid senior synonym of a variety
of taxa, including Circulisporites, Pseudoschizaea, and Concentricystes
[...] Chomotriletes s.l. is considered
to be a cyst of a freshwater organism
[...] The presence of euglenoid cysts in association with the end-Triassic extinction fits
a scenario in which enhanced rainfall followed by strong soil erosion resulted in the release
and redeposition of Chomotriletes into shallow marine settings ..."
M. Zaton et al. (2005):
Late Triassic charophytes around the bone-bearing
bed at Krasiejów (SW Poland) -- palaeoecological
and environmental remarks. PDF file,
Acta Geologica Polonica, 55: 83-293.
See also
here.
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