We would like to thank Bernard Crilley (Dartmouth, Nova Scotia) and Astri Dugan (Oslo) for their processing skill in recovering the diverse dinocyst assemblages from the samples. Bill MacMillan has provided technical expertise in production of the figures and plates and Nelly Koziel, as always, has typed the numerous versions of the manuscript. We are indebted to Dr. Robert Goll (formerly IKU, Trondheim) for permission to use his unpublished data. And we are especially appreciative of the constructive input from the two reviewers, Gunn Mangerud and Morten Smelror. Their guidance and advice have considerably improved the manuscript. Svein Manum is grateful to the Geology Department, University of Oslo, for funding the visit to Dartmouth. Graham Williams would like to acknowledge the support of the Geological Survey of Canada (Atlantic) throughout this project.
This publication is Geological Survey of Canada contribution no. 1998060.