Benthic foraminifera extinctions in the Cenozoic record ...

• Main Authors: Hayward, Bruce William, Johnson, Katherine, Sabaa, Ashwaq T, Kawagata, Shungo, Thomas, Ellen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2010
• Subjects: Drilling/drill rig; Composite Core; Leg33; Leg80; Leg94; Leg143; Leg162; Leg167; Leg172; Glomar Challenger; Joides Resolution; Deep Sea Drilling Project DSDP; Ocean Drilling Program ODP; Hayward; Pacific; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.774877; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.774877

In the late Pliocene-middle Pleistocene a group of 95 species of elongate, cylindrical, deep-sea (lower bathyal-abyssal) benthic foraminifera became extinct. This Extinction Group (Ext. Gp), belonging to three families (all the Stilostomellidae and Pleurostomellidae, some of the Nodosariidae), was a...