- they are
unlikely to be
tintinnids and
probably not
ciliates at all.
Fossils which can be
reliably related to
extant tintinnids (e.g.
fossils of agglutinated...
-
affinities to
larger marine animals, and not
tintinnids.
Often they have been
included among the oligotrichs.
Tintinnids seem to be an
excessively specious group...
- P. tetraurelia.
Until recently, the
oldest ciliate fossils known were
tintinnids from the
Ordovician period. In 2007, Li et al.
published a description...
-
Microzooplankton are
major grazers of the plankton: two
dinoflagellates and a
tintinnid ciliate. Sarg****um
seaweed drifts with
currents using air
bladders to...
-
exemplars of the
order feed by
catching prey, such as
copepod nauplii or
tintinnids, on the
adhesive ends of
their pseudopodia extending radially from their...
- single-celled
organisms such as dinoflagellates, silicoflagellates, diatoms, and
tintinnids, as well as
copepods and
other small particles.
Continuing up the food...
-
include many
morphologically dissimilar spirotrich ciliates, such as the
tintinnids and the oligotrichs. In the
classification system developed by
Denis Lynn...
- norvegica, mysids,
small fishes,
menhaden larvae, pteropods, annelids,
tintinnids by
larvae below 45
millimetres (1.8 in), Haplosphaera, Pseudocal****....
- lab conditions, and ciliates. Some
species of
Obelia are
known ingest tintinnids and
microplanktonic ****
through grazers.
During the
polyp stage, the mouth...
-
originally all
considered oligotrichs. The
latter group includes the
tintinnids,
which produce loricae or s**** and are the
predominant fossil ciliates...
