Dinoflagellate menagerie

This page is under construction, but nothing prevents you from browsing. Some of the identifications are quite tentative. All the current specimens are fossil cysts from the Late Albian age (Cretaceous) Kiowa Formation in Kansas, U.S.A. Eventually these will be organized into a more sane arrangement with comments.

Cleistosphaeridium? sp.

Cribroperidinium sp. operculum

Kiokansium sp. Kiokansium sp.

Oligosphaeridium sp.

Pseudoceratium securigerum Pseudoceratium securigerum Pseudoceratium securigerum -- ventral Pseudoceratium securigerum -- dorsal

Xiphophoridium alatum Xiphoporidium alatum

Chichaouadinium sp.

Ovoidinium? sp. SEM image

Litosphaeridium arundum SEM image

Florentinia sp.SEM image

"Cerbia" tabulata ventral "Cerbia" tabulata ventral, without operculum "Cerbia" tabulata dorsal

Authorship

Andrew MacRae, email: macrae@geo.ucalgary.ca

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