RT Journal Article
T1 Ciliates — Protists with complex morphologies and ambiguousearly fossil record
A1 Dunthorn, Micah
A1 Lipps, Jere H.
A1 Dolan, John R.
A1 Abboud-Abi Saab, Marie
A1 Aescht, Erna
A1 Bachy, Charles
A1 Barría de Cao, María Sonia
A1 Berger, Helmut
A1 Bourland, William A.
A1 Choi, Joong Ki
A1 Clamp, John
A1 Doherty, Mary
A1 Gao, Feng
A1 Gentekaki, Eleni
A1 Gong, Jun
A1 Hu, Xiaozhong
A1 Huang, Jie
A1 Kamiyama, Takashi
A1 Johnson, Matthew D.
A1 Kammerlander, Barbara
A1 Kim, Sun Young
A1 Kim, Young-Ok
A1 la Terza, Antonietta
A1 Laval-Peuto, Michèle
A1 Lipscomb, Diana
A1 Lobban, Christopher S.
A1 Long, Hongan
A1 Luporini, Pierangelo
A1 Lynn, Denis H.
A1 Macek, Miroslav
A1 Mansergh, Robert I.
A1 Martín Cereceda, María Mercedes
A1 McManus, George G.
A1 Montagnes, David J.S.
A1 Ong'ondo, Geoffrey O.
A1 Patterson, David J.
A1 Pérez Uz, Blanca
A1 Quintela Alonso, Pablo
A1 Stoecker, Diane K.
A1 Strüder-Kypke, Michaela C.
A1 Trautmann, Isabelle
A1 Utz, Laura R.P.
A1 Vallesi, Adriana
A1 Vd'ačný, Peter
A1 Warren, Alan
A1 Weisse, Thomas
A1 Wickham, Stephen A.
A1 Yi, Zhenzhen
A1 Zhang, Wuchang
A1 Zhan, Zifeng
A1 Zufall, Rebecca
A1 Agatha, Sabine
AB Since ciliates rarely possess structures that easily fossilize, we are limited in our ability to use paleontological studies to reconstruct the early evolution of this large and ecologically important clade of protists. Tintinnids, a group of loricate (house-forming) planktonic ciliates, are the only group that has a significant fossil record. Putative tintinnid fossils from rocks older than Jurassic, however, possess few to no characters that can be found in extant ciliates; these fossils are best described as ‘incertae sedis eukaryotes’. Here, we review the Devonian fossil Nassacysta reticulata and propose that it is likewise another incertae sedis eukaryote due to the lack of any unambiguous ciliate characters. Future tintinnid fossil descriptions would be most helpful if: (i) neutral terminology is used in the descriptions but ciliate-specific terminology in the interpretations; (ii) the current ciliate classification is used, although fossil data may expand or modify classifications based on modern forms; (iii) close collaboration with specialists studying extant ciliates is done; and (iv) editors include an expert of extant ciliates in the review process.
PB Elsevier
SN 0377-8398
YR 2015
FD 2015-09
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/23280
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/23280
LA eng
NO Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
NO National Science Foundation
DS Docta Complutense
RD 10 abr 2025