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Origin and Nature of the Palynomorph Group, Phytoplankton Subgroup

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Full descriptions of the morphology and taxonomy of palynomorphs are not given in this work because this is not a palynology text book, and because these aspects are covered at length elsewhere (Tschudy and Scott, 1969; Châteauneuf and Reyre, 1974; Brasier, 1980; Tappan, 1980; Evitt, 1985; Traverse, 1988; Lipps, 1993). This account will concentrate mainly on the distribution patterns of the palynomorphs in marine and, to a lesser extent, lacustrine sediments. Further descriptive (but non-taxonomic) detail is provided only for the phytoplankton, where I have concentrated mainly on those geologically important groups that are sparsely treated in palynological and often also phycological, texts (e.g. Chlorophyta, prasinophytes, and cyanobacteria). Those seeking botanical background information on, or taxonomic treatment of, the origin and detailed terrestrial palaeoecology of spores and pollen (and their parent plants) are referred to the appropriate palynological texts cited above, and to the botanical, palaeobotanical, and Quaternary palynology literature. In marine sediments, with which this work is primarily concerned, the botanical and floral controls on the production and initial distribution of spores and pollen are of generally much diminished importance compared to subsequent hydrodynamic and sedimentological factors.

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Tyson, R.V. (1995). Origin and Nature of the Palynomorph Group, Phytoplankton Subgroup. In: Sedimentary Organic Matter. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0739-6_9

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