Malvinia escutiana, a new biostratigraphically important Oligocene dinoflagellate cyst from the Southern Ocean

• Published in: Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
• Main Authors: Houben, Alexander J. P., Bijl, Peter K., Guerstein, Gladys Raquel, Sluijs, Appy, Brinkhuis, Henk
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Science
• Subjects: Antarctic Glaciation; Dinoflagellate Cysts; Eocene; Oligocene; Peridinioid; Southern Ocean; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; Argentina; Bajos; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/73205

The Eocene-Oligocene Transition (EOT, ~. 34. Ma) represents the culmination of Eocene cooling by the initiation of large-scale Antarctic glaciation. Recognition and correlation of the EOT in Southern Ocean sedimentary successions have been difficult as a result of the general lack of well-calibrated...