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