Late Cretaceous planktonic foraminiferal assemblages from the Exmouth Plateau, ODP Sites 122-762 and 122-763, eastern Indian Ocean

• Main Author: Petrizzo, Maria Rose
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2002
• Subjects: 122-762C; 122-763B; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; Joides Resolution; Leg122; Ocean Drilling Program; ODP; South Indian Ridge; South Indian Ocean; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.690511; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.690511

The evolution of planktonic foraminifera during the Late Cretaceous is marked in the Santonian by the disappearance of complex morphotypes (the marginotruncanids), and the contemporary increasing importance and diversification of another group of complex taxa, the globotruncanids. Upper Turonian to...