Duxbury collection database

Access high quality colour images and original plates from the Duxbury collection, a catalogue of Cretaceous dinoflagellate cyst specimens.

The database includes the original plates from Duxbury's 1983 publication, along with new:

  • high quality digital images
  • videos of the original specimens
  • Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (CLSM) images, providing:
    • extended focus images
    • red/green anaglyphs, requiring red/green glasses to appreciate the 3D effect
    • 3D animations
    • animations of the image stack from specimens embedded in a microscope slide

All images and movies have been compressed for display on the web. To play the videos you will need to install the QuickTime plug-in.

The original diagnoses and edits by Duxbury (1983) are included for each taxon, with added notes inferring subsequent changes in taxonomy.

  • Chlamydophorella nyei, from the Duxbury collection.
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    Access high quality colour images and original plates from the Duxbury collection, a catalogue of Cretaceous dinoflagellate cysts.

Chlamydophorella nyei, from the Duxbury collection.
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References

Duxbury, S. 1983. A study of dinoflagellate cysts and acritarchs from the Lower Greensand (Aptian to Lower Albian) of the Isle of Wight, Southern England. Palaeontographica Abt. B, 186, 1-3, 18-80.

Feist-Burkhardt, S. & Pross, J. 1999. Morphological analysis and description of Middle Jurassic dinoflagellate cyst marker species using confocal laser scanning microscopy, digital optical microscopy and conventional light microscopy. Bulletin du Centre de Recherches Elf Exploration Production, [1998] 22(1), 103-145, Pau.

Williams, G. L., Lentin, J. K. & Fensome, R. A. 1998. The Lentin and Williams Index of Fossil Dinoflagellates — 1998 Edition. — AASP Contribution Series, no. 34, American Association of Palynologists Foundation.