Dinoflagellate cyst species composition of recent surface samples (Appendix)

Jens Matthiessen

doi:10.1594/pangaea.733497

Dinoflagellate cyst species composition of recent surface samples (Appendix)

Citation

Matthiessen J (1995). Dinoflagellate cyst species composition of recent surface samples (Appendix). PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.733497 accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-11.

Description

Dinoflagellate cysts and other organic-walled microfossils have been studied in recent surface sediments from the entire Norwegian-Greenland Sea. More than 30 taxa have been recognized, of which only few show a distinct distribution pattern, and allow description of four assemblages. The occurrence of most taxa is related to the relatively warmer waters of the Norwegian Sea. Algidaspaeridium? minutum s.1., Brigantedinium simplex and Impagidinium? pallidum are the only species showing a preference for colder water masses. Two species, I.? pallidum and Nematosphaeropsis labyrinthus are mainly restricted to the oceanic environment, whereas the other species have also been reported from neritic environments in previous studies. Due to the limited knowledge of the ecological and sedimentological factors influencing the occurrence of dinoflagellate cysts in oceanic environments, their distribution in recent sediments can be only related to surface water masses in a broad sense. Although the distribution of assemblages correlates with specific surface water masses, comparison with assemblages recovered from sediment traps deployed basinwide in the Norwegian-Greenland Sea (Dale and Dale, 1992) revealed some major discrepancies in species composition and percentage abundances. The differences cannot be explained with certainty at the moment, although there is some evidence that transport of dinoflagellate cysts and other fossilizable microplankton in water masses by currents, in sea-ice and sediments may modify the assemblages found in recent oceanic surface sediments from the Norwegian-Greenland Sea.

Taxonomic Coverages

Chromista
rank: kingdom
Myzozoa
rank: kingdom
Plantae
rank: kingdom
rank: kingdom

Geographic Coverages

Event: GIK16393-1, Atlantic Ocean ; Event: GIK16915-1, Norwegian-Greenland Sea/off Iceland ; Event: GIK16916-1, Norwegian-Greenland Sea/off Iceland ; Event: GIK16921-1, Norwegian-Greenland Sea/off Iceland ; Event: GIK16922-1, Norwegian-Greenland Sea/off Iceland ; Event: GIK16929-1, Norwegian-Greenland Sea/off Iceland ; Event: GIK16930-1, Norwegian-Greenland Sea/off Iceland ; Event: GIK16932-1, Norwegian-Greenland Sea/off Iceland ; Event: GIK16949-1, Norwegian-Greenland Sea/off Iceland ; Event: GIK23037-1, Norwegian Sea ; Event: GIK23058-1, Norwegian Sea ; Event: GIK23071-1, Norwegian Sea ; Event: GIK23254-3, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23257-2, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23258-3, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23259-3, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23260-1, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23261-2, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23262-2, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23264-3, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23266-1, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23267-2, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23269-2, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23270-2, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23277-1, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23279-1, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23289-2, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23291-1, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23293-2, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23294-3, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23295-4, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23297-1, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23298-2, Atlantic Ocean ; Event: GIK23301-2, Atlantic Ocean ; Event: GIK23302-1, Atlantic Ocean ; Event: GIK23330-1, Atlantic Ocean ; Event: GIK23341-2, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23342-2, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23343-3, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23344-4, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23346-3, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23347-4, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23348-3, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23349-2, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23350-2, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23351-3, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23352-2, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23353-3, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23354-2, Arctic Ocean ; Event: GIK23359-2, Atlantic Ocean ; Event: PS1238-1, Norwegian Sea ; Event: PS1241-1, Norwegian Sea ; Event: PS1244-1, Iceland Sea ; Event: PS1246-1, Iceland Sea ; Event: PS1248-1, Iceland Sea ; Event: PS1290-3, Fram Strait http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fram_Strait ; Event: PS1293-3, Fram Strait http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fram_Strait ; Event: PS1295-3, Fram Strait http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fram_Strait ; Event: PS1297-3, Fram Strait http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fram_Strait ; Event: PS1302-2, Fram Strait http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fram_Strait ; Event: PS1303-2, Fram Strait http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fram_Strait ; Event: PS1306-2, Fram Strait http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fram_Strait ; Event: PS1307-2, Fram Strait http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fram_Strait ; Event: PS1308-3, Fram Strait http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fram_Strait ; Event: PS1310-4, Fram Strait http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fram_Strait ; Event: PS1312-3, Fram Strait http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fram_Strait ; Event: PS1314-3, Fram Strait http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fram_Strait ; Event: PS1315-3, Fram Strait http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fram_Strait ; Event: PS1323-3, Voring Plateau ; Event: PS1696-1, Greenland Sea ; Event: PS1697-2, Greenland Sea ; Event: PS1698-2, Greenland Sea ; Event: PS1699-1, Greenland Shelf ; Event: PS1700-1, Greenland Shelf ; Event: PS1701-1, Greenland Shelf ; Event: PS1702-1, Greenland Sea ; Event: PS1703-1, Greenland Shelf ; Event: PS1704-1, Hovgaard Fracture Zone ; Event: PS1706-1, Greenland Sea ; Event: PS1707-1, Jan Mayen Fracture Zone ; Event: PS1708-1, Kolbeinsey Ridge ; Event: PS1736-1, Greenland Sea ; Event: PS1737-2, Greenland Sea ; Event: PS1738-3, Greenland Sea ; Event: PS1742-2, Greenland Sea ; Event: PS1743-2, Greenland Sea ; Event: PS1744-2, Greenland Sea ; Event: PS1745-4, Greenland Sea ; Event: PS1747-2, Greenland Sea ; Event: PS1748-1, Greenland Sea ;

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Contacts

Jens Matthiessen
originator

metadata author
PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science
email: info@pangaea.de
homepage: https://www.pangaea.de

Frank-Oliver Glöckner
administrative point of contact

Robert Huber
administrative point of contact