Distribution of Upper Cretaceous deep water agglutinated foraminifera in sediments of the North Atlantic and its marginal seas (Tab. 1) ...

• Main Authors: Kuhnt, Wolfgang, Kaminski, Michael Anthony, Moullade, Michel
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1989
• Subjects: Cork Harbour; Guadiana Estuary; Pertuis Charentais; Scheldt Delta Estuary; Event label; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; DEPTH, sediment/rock; Depth, top/min; Depth, bottom/max; Epoch; Sample comment; Ammobaculites agglutinans; Ammobaculites aubertae; Ammobaculites jarvisi; Ammobaculites sp.; Ammodiscus asperellus; Ammodiscus cretaceus; Ammodiscus glabratus; Ammodiscus infimus; Ammodiscus pennyi; Ammodiscus cf. pennyi; Ammodiscus peruvianus; Ammodiscus planus; Ammodiscus sp.; Ammolagena clavata; Ammosphaeroidina pseudopauciloculata; Arenobulimina dorbignyi; Aschemonella carpathica; Aschemonella ex. gr. A. grandis; Bathysiphon spp.; Bolivinopsis parvissimus; Budashevaella trinitatensis; Clavulinoides aspera; Clavulinoides eggeri; Clavulinoides subparisiensis; Cribrostomoides sp.; Cribrostomoides trinitatensis; Dendrophyra ex. gr. D. exceisa; Dendrophyra latissima; Dorothia crassa trochoides; Dorothia oxycona; Dorothia retusa; Dorothia sp.; Gaudryina ex. gr. G. cretacea; Gaudryina pyramidata; Gaudryina sp.; Glomospira charoides; Glomospira diffundens; Glomospira gordialis; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.667860; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.667860

The stratigraphic and biogeographic distribution of more than 170 species of deep-water agglutinated benthic foraminifers (DWAF) from the North Atlantic and adjacent marginal seas has been compared with paleoenvironmental data (e.g. paleobathymetry, oxygenation of the bottom waters, amount of terrigenous input and substrate disturbance). Six general types of assemblages, in which deep water agglutinated taxa occur, are defined from the Turonian to Maastrichtian times:1. High latitude slope assemblages2. Low to mid latitude slope assemblages3. Flysch-type assemblages4. Deep water limestone assemblages (,,Scaglia,,-type)5. Abyssal mixed calcareous-agglutinated assemblages6. Abyssal purely agglutinated assemblagesLatitudinal differences in faunal composition are observed, the most important of which is the lack or extreme paucity of calcareous forms in high latitude assemblages. East-to-west differences appear to be of comparatively minor importance. Most DWAF species occur in all studied regions and are thus ... : Positions for the non-DSDP/ODP sites are a rough estimation, sampling depth is unknown. ...