Benthic foraminifera extinctions in the Cenozoic record

• Main Authors: Hayward, Bruce William, Johnson, Katherine, Sabaa, Ashwaq T, Kawagata, Shungo, Thomas, Ellen
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2010
• Subjects: 143-865B; 162-980; 162-982; 167-1012; 167-1012B; 172-1055B; 33-317B; 80-548; 80-548A; 94-608; Carolina Slope; North Atlantic Ocean; COMPCORE; Composite Core; Deep Sea Drilling Project; DRILL; Drilling/drill rig; DSDP; Glomar Challenger; Joides Resolution; KR9912PC4; Leg143; Leg162; Leg167; Leg172; Leg33; Leg80; Leg94; North Atlantic/FLANK; North Atlantic/SPUR; North Pacific Ocean; Ocean Drilling Program; ODP; South Pacific/PLATEAU; South Pacific Ocean; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.774877; https://doi.org/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...