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Brackish and Marginal Marine Phytoplankton from the Athabasca Oil Sands (Lower Cretaceous) of North-East Alberta, Canada

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ABSTRACT Four new species and one new variety of dinoflagellate cysts and one new acritarch species are described from the Lower Cretaceous Athabasca Oil Sands of northern Alberta, Canada. The… Click to show full abstract

ABSTRACT Four new species and one new variety of dinoflagellate cysts and one new acritarch species are described from the Lower Cretaceous Athabasca Oil Sands of northern Alberta, Canada. The new taxa are Batioladinium? vestigium var. vestigium, Batioladinium? vestigium var. granulatum, Craspedodinium robustum, Nyktericysta inflata, Oligosphaeridium tuberculatum and Fromea? plicata. They characterise brackish to stressed marine environments in the McMurray, Clearwater and Grand Rapids formations.

Keywords: athabasca oil; oil sands; lower cretaceous; alberta canada; brackish marginal

Journal Title: Palynology
Year Published: 2019

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