The literature on Triassic, Jurassic and earliest Cretaceous dinoflagellate cysts: Supplement 3

ABSTRACT

Since the production of three literature compilations in 2012, 2013 and 2014, 266 further published contributions on Triassic, Jurassic and earliest Cretaceous (Berriasian) dinoflagellate cysts were issued between April 2014 and January 2018, or have been discovered. These 266 items are listed alphabetically herein with full details, including digital object identifier (doi) numbers where applicable. A full description of each publication as a string of keywords is given. These studies are placed in one or more of 14 global regions, and the most significant contributions are reviewed for all these areas except Central America. The region with the most studies is West Europe (37.2%), but sub-Arctic Russia (10.5%), the Arctic region (10.2%), East Europe (7.1%) and sub-Arctic North America (4.1%) are also well represented. The proportions of these publications over the Triassic, Early Jurassic, Middle Jurassic, Late Jurassic and Jurassic–Cretaceous transition intervals are relatively similar. However, the Middle Jurassic is best represented, and the Triassic has the smallest number of contributions.

KEYWORDS:

• biostratigrapy
• dinoflagellate cysts
• literature analysis and compilation
• Triassic, Jurassic and earliest Cretaceous
• worldwide

Acknowledgements

This paper is respectfully dedicated to the memory of the late UK-based consultant palynologist William ‘Bill’ Braham (1957–2016). Bill worked as an industrial palynologist with great distinction all his career, and his untimely passing is profoundly mourned by his many colleagues, family and friends.

The author is very grateful to Stephen Stukins and John E. Williams of the Department of Palaeontology at the Natural History Museum, London, UK for help with locating literature. Many thanks are also due to all the staff of the BGS Library for their help in locating articles. Other colleagues also provided advice and publications, including Marcin Barski (Warsaw, Poland), Przemysław Gedl (Kraków, Poland), Olga Shurekova (St. Petersburg, Russia), Vera Pospelova (British Columbia, Canada) and Petr Skupien (Ostrava, Czech Republic). The advice given by several colleagues, including Jan A.I. Hennissen (BGS), and two peer reviewers significantly improved this paper. This contribution is published with the approval of the Executive Director, British Geological Survey (NERC).

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James B. Riding

JAMES B. RIDING is a palynologist with the British Geological Survey (BGS), in Nottingham, UK. He undertook the MSc in palynology at the University of Sheffield and, several years later, Jim was awarded a PhD by the same institution. His interests include the Mesozoic–Cenozoic palynology of the world, palaeoenvironmental palynology, palynomorph floral provinces, forensic palynology, preparation techniques, the history of palynology, and the morphology, systematics and taxonomy of dinoflagellate cysts. Jim is a past Director-at-Large and President of AASP – The Palynological Society, and became Managing Editor in 2004.