Rare calcareous microfossils from Middle Miocene strata, Weddell Sea off Antarctic Peninsula

The calcareousmicrofossil assemblage from Middle Miocene strata of SHALDRIL Site NBP0602A−5D consists of benthic foraminifera, ostracods, bivalves, and gastropods, and is interpreted as shallow−water. It appears to be reworked but its age is probably similar to the age of the host sediment, which co...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Polish Polar Research
Main Authors: Majewski, Wojciech, Olempska, Ewa, Kaim, Andrzej, Anderson, John B.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2012
Subjects:
West Antarctica
benthic foraminifera
ostracods
gastropods
reworking
Antarctic
Antarctic Peninsula
Weddell Sea
Weddell
Antarc*
Antarctica
Polar Research
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1911/88241
https://doi.org/10.2478/v10183-012-0015-2
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Summary:The calcareousmicrofossil assemblage from Middle Miocene strata of SHALDRIL Site NBP0602A−5D consists of benthic foraminifera, ostracods, bivalves, and gastropods, and is interpreted as shallow−water. It appears to be reworked but its age is probably similar to the age of the host sediment, which contains only rare, fragmented, agglutinated foraminifera. Most of the calcareous taxa are of uncertain taxonomic affiliation, due to the scarcity of Ceno− zoic microfossils of this age fromWest Antarctica, and also the very different paleohabitat of this now extinct assemblage.

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