Pliocene/Pleistocene benthic foraminiferal abundances from six drilling cores, supplement to: Hayward, Bruce W; Kawagata, Shungo; Grenfell, Hugh R; Sabaa, Ashwaq T; O'Neill, Tanya (2007): Last global extinction in the deep sea during the mid-Pleistocene climate transition. Paleoceanography, 22(3), PA3103

• Main Authors: Hayward, Bruce W, Kawagata, Shungo, Grenfell, Hugh R, Sabaa, Ashwaq T, O'Neill, Tanya
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2007
• Subjects: Drilling/drill rig; Leg160; Leg161; Leg167; Leg172; Joides Resolution; Ocean Drilling Program ODP; Antarctic; Hayward; Antarc*; North Atlantic Deep Water; North Atlantic; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.746497; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.746497

Twenty percent (19 genera, 95 species) of cosmopolitan, deep-sea (500-4000 m), benthic foraminiferal species became extinct during the late Pliocene-Middle Pleistocene (3-0.12 Ma), with the peak of extinctions (76 species) occurring during the mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition (MPT, 1.2-0.55 Ma). O...