FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI A morphological comparison of two cladopyxidacean dinoflagellates: the extant Micracanthodinium setiferum and the fossil Cladopyxidinium saeptum (Dinophyceae, Gonyaulacales) BT AF Mertens, Kenneth Carbonell-Moore, M. Consuelo Gardner, Kristina AS 1:1;2:2;3:3; FF 1:PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERBO;2:;3:; C1 Ifremer, LITTORAL, F-29900 Concarneau, France Oregon State University, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, College of Agricultural Sciences, 2082 Cordley Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331-2902, U.S.A. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Delaware, DGS Building, 257 Academy Street Newark, DE 19716-7501, U.S.A C2 IFREMER, FRANCE UNIV OREGON STATE, USA UNIV DELAWARE, USA SI CONCARNEAU SE PDG-ODE-LITTORAL-LERBO IN WOS Ifremer UPR copubli-int-hors-europe IF 1.5 TC 3 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00696/80835/84412.pdf LA English DT Article DE ;dinoflagellates;partiform;Kofoidian;porichnion;Paleocene;Eocene AB Among dinoflagellates, extant cladopyxidaceans may provide a missing link to better understand the first evolutionary transformations from ancestral configurations towards the more abundant and more derived patterns in Gonyaulacales and Peridiniales. A restudy of the extant, motile-defined Micracanthodinium setiferum from plankton samples from the Indian and Atlantic Oceans and Mediterranean Sea demonstrates that the correct plate formula is Po Pt X 3′+*4′ 4a 7′′ 7C 4S? 6′′′ 0p 2′′′′. A ventral pore is found between 1′, 3′ and *4′. A restudy of the extinct, fossil-defined Cladopyxidium saeptum from the upper Paleocene of Delaware (U.S.A), demonstrated the presence of an identical tabulation. A ventral pore (=porichnion) was positioned between *1′ and 7′′. Cladopyxidium is morphologically closer to Micracanthodinium than to Cladopyxis. However, since Cladopyxidium has been extinct since the middle Eocene it is unlikely that Micracanthodinium and Cladopyxidium will have a direct biological link; the close morphological link between both does suggest an important phylogenetic relationship between both in the evolution of cladopyxidaceans. PY 2022 PD JAN SO Palynology SN 0191-6122 PU Informa UK Limited VL 46 IS 1 UT 000674068200001 DI 10.1080/01916122.2021.1934908 ID 80835 ER EF