Language: in Chinese with English summary (P641-673)
ISBN/ISSN: 9787030237002
Published on: 2009-01
Hardcover
This volume is divided into eight main chapters. The first seven chapters concern an introduction to the study of fossil and living dinoflagellates. A final chapter is the systematic classification of fossil dinoflagellates of China. It summarizes fossil dinoflagellate taxa published before the year 2006 in China. A total of 213 genera 13 subgenera and about 1000 species (forms) including subspecies and varietates are basically collected: of which, 2 new genera (Asymmetropecysta and Xishadinium), 5 new species (Asymmetropecysta scabrata, Batiacasphaera macropyla, Chytroeisphaeridia yujingxianii, Sicyoidium circulare and Xishadinium circulatum), 78 new combinations are proposed. In addition, holotype specimens are here designated for 10 species invalidly published; The English diagnosis of 50 species invalidly published by Xuet al, 197 is briefly given in this volume; 3 genera are treated as subgenera, as well as 6 genera and 22 species are treated as taxonomic junior synonyms.
Chapter 1 General remarks and brief history of study
Section 1 General remarks of dinoflagellates
Section 2 A brief history of study of fossil dinoflagellates
Chapter 2 Morphology and life cycle of living dinoflagellates
Section 1 Basic morphology
Section 2 Reproduction and life cycle
Chapter 3 Morphology of fossil dinoflagellates
Section 1 General features and cyst morphotypes
Section 2 Paracingulum and parasulcus
Section 3 Paratabulation
Section 4 Archeopyle
Section 5 Surface relief of cyst wall
Section 6 Major tabulation systems
Chapter 4 Classification
Section 1 Introduction
Section 2 Fossil classification
Chapter 5 Biotic evolution and biostratigraphic zonations
Section 1 Paleozoic
Section 2 Mesozoic
Section 3 Cenozoic
Chapter 6 Paleoecology
Section 1 Introduction
Section 2 Paleoenvironmental indicator
Section 3 Techniques and results
Section 4 Non-marine dinoflagellates
Section 5 Paleoclimatology and paleoceanography
Chapter 7 Relationship between fossil dinoflagellates and formation of oil
Section 1 Dinoflagellates as a good quality kind of oil-generating matter
Section 2 Distribution correspondence of fossil dinoflagellates and geological ages of oilfields and source rocks
Section 3 Biomarker peculiar to dinoflagellates from crude oil or sedimentary rocks
Section 4 Thermo-simulating experiment of modern dinoflagellates in hydrocarbon-generating and evidence from spore-pollen analysis of crude oil
Chapter 8 Systematic classification and description (see Chinese text)
References
Index of generic and specific names
Appendix
Plates and explanation
