Acritarcha

Taxonavigation

Eisenackidium orientalis

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Eukaryota incertae sedis
Cladus: †Acritarcha
Genera: †Cheleutochroa – †Coryphidium – †Introvertocystis – †Pirea
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Name

Acritarcha Evitt, 1963

Synonyms

Hystrichospheres p.p.

References

Evitt, William R. (1963). A discussion and proposals concerning fossil dinoflagellates, hystrichospheres, and acritarchs, II. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 49 (3): 298–302. Bibcode:1963PNAS...49..298E. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.49.3.298 PMC 299818. PMID: 16591055.

Additional references

Fensome R.A., Williams G.L., Barss M.S., Freeman J.M., Hill J.M., 1990. Acritarchs and fossil prasinophytes: an index to genera, species and infraspecific taxa. American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Contributions Series, 25, 771 p.
Lister T.R., 1970. The acritarchs and chitinozoa from the Wenlock and Ludlow Series of the Ludlow and Millichope areas, Shropshire. Part 1. Palaeontographical Society Monographs, 124(1), 100 p.
Servais T., Stricanne L., Montenari M., Pross J., 2004. Population dynamics of galeate acritarchs at the Cambrian-Ordovician transition in the Algerian Sahara. Palaeontology, 47(2), 395-414.
Javaux E., Marshall C., Bekker A. 2010. Organic-walled microfossils in 3.2-billion-year-old shallow-marine siliciclastic deposits. Nature, 463, 934–938.
Huntley J.W., Xiao S., Kowalewski M., 2006. 1.3 billion years of acritarch history: an empirical morphospace approach. Precambrian Research, 144, 52-68.
Munnecke A., Delabroye A., Servais T., Vandenbroucke T.R.A., Marco Vecoli, M., 2012. Systematic occurrences of malformed (teratological) acritarchs in the run-up of Early Palaeozoic δ13C isotope excursions. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 367-368, 137-146.
Wang W., Servais T., Yan K., Vecoli M., Li J., 2014. The Ordovician acritarch Dactylofusa velifera Cocchio 1982: a biostratigraphical and palaeogeographical index species. Palynology, 39, 125-141.
Doweld, A.B. 2018. (2603) Proposal to conserve the name Pirea Vavrdová (fossil Algae: Acritarcha) against Pirea T. Durand (Magnoliophyta: Brassicaceae). Taxon 67(2): 452. DOI: 10.12705/672.25 Reference page.

Links

Acritarcha – Taxon details on Paleobiology Database.

Vernacular names

English: Acritarchs
français: Acritarches