Correlation between Shallow Benthic Zones and calcareous plankton Zones at the Bartonian-Priabonian transition: preliminary results from the Varignano section (Trento Province, northern Italy).

• Main Authors: PAPAZZONI, Cesare Andrea, Moretti A., Luciani V., Fornaciari E., Giusberti L.
• Other Authors: Faculdad de Ciencias e Tecnologia Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Papazzoni, Cesare Andrea, Moretti, A., Luciani, V., Fornaciari, E., Giusberti, L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Faculdad de Ciencias e Tecnologia Universidade Nova de Lisboa 2013
• Subjects: Biostratigraphy; Shallow Benthic Zone; Middle/Upper Eocene boundary; Larger Foraminifera; Planktonic Foraminifera; Calcareous Nannoplankton; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11380/969503

The Varignano section (Trento province, northern Italy), deposited in bathyal paleoenvironment, contains eight resedimented bioclastic levels with larger foraminifera, thus providing the exceptional chance to directly correlate the Shallow Benthic Zones (SBZ) with the calcareous plankton standard Zones around the Bartonian-Priabonian transition. Moreover, this section is only 80 km far from the Alano di Piave section (Veneto region), candidate to host the GSSP of the base of Priabonian, where this direct correlation is hampered by the absence of resedimented levels across the critical interval. The preliminary results of the integrated calcareous plankton and larger foraminifera study evidence that the extinction of morozovellids and large acarininids (E13-E14 boundary) occurs within SBZ 18 and not at the boundary SBZ 18-19 as usually considered.