Mendicodinium Mataschenensis: A New Endemic Dinoflagellate Cyst from the Late Miocene (Tortonian) of Lake Pannon (Austria)

• Published in: Palynology Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 35 - 47
• Main Authors: Soliman, Ali, Feist-Burkhardt, Susanne, Harzhauser, Mathias, Kern, Andrea K, Piller, Werner E
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Philadelphia American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists 01.06.2013; Taylor & Francis Group; Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Austria; Brackish; brackish water; brackish-water environment; Cenozoic; Central Europe; clay; Dinoflagellata; dinoflagellate cysts; Dinophyceae; Europe; Gonyaulacales; Indexing in process; Lake Pannon; lakes; Late Miocene; Mataschen; Mataschen Austria; Mendicodinium; Mendicodinium mataschenensis; microfossils; Miocene; morphology; Neogene; new species; new taxa; paleoecology; paleoenvironment; Paleontology; palynomorphs; Peridiniphycidae; SEM data; Styria Austria; taxonomy; Tertiary; Tortonian; upper Miocene; vertebrate; Austria
• ISSN: 0191-6122; 1558-9188; 1558-9188
• DOI: 10.1080/01916122.2012.662180

The organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst Mendicodinium mataschenensis is introduced here as a new species. The taxon derives from lower Tortonian clays from the Mataschen clay pit in Styria, Austria. These deposits formed in Lake Pannon, which was characterized throughout the Late Miocene by its highly endemic and rapidly evolving biota. As most species of Mendicodinium are known from restricted marine and brackish paleoenvironments, its occurrence in Lake Pannon may be considered further evidence for the brackish water conditions prevailing in this lake.