Larger foraminiferal biostratigraphy of the Tethyan Paleocene and Eocene

Abundance, diversity, and high evolutionary rates make larger foraminifera useful biostratigraphic tools for datation of sediments deposited in shallow marine platforms. Twenty shallow benthic zones (SBZ) are defined in the time span ranging from the base of Paleocene up to the Eocene-Oligocene boun...

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Main Authors: J. Serra Kiel, L. Hottinger, E. Caus, K. Drobne, C. Ferrandez, A. K. Jauhri, G. Less, R. Pavlovec, J. M. Samso, H. Schaub, E. Sirel, A. Strougo, Y. Tambareau, J. Tosquella, E. Zakrevskaya, PIGNATTI, Johannes
Other Authors: J., Serra Kiel, L., Hottinger, E., Cau, K., Drobne, C., Ferrandez, A. K., Jauhri, G., Le, R., Pavlovec, Pignatti, Johanne, J. M., Samso, H., Schaub, E., Sirel, A., Strougo, Y., Tambareau, J., Tosquella, E., Zakrevskaya
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: SOC GEOL FRANCE 1998
Subjects:
biostratigraphy
biozonation
eocene
larger foraminifera
neo-tethy
paleocene
paleogene
tethys
Planktonic foraminifera
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11573/46277
http://bsgf.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/169/2/281
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Summary:Abundance, diversity, and high evolutionary rates make larger foraminifera useful biostratigraphic tools for datation of sediments deposited in shallow marine platforms. Twenty shallow benthic zones (SBZ) are defined in the time span ranging from the base of Paleocene up to the Eocene-Oligocene boundary. A SBZ zone is characterized upon the stratigraphic distribution of several taxa, belonging mainly to alveolinids, nummulitids and orthophragminids. The correlation of shallow benthic zones with the Paleocene-Eocene Time Scale by Berggren et al. [1995] is proposed on the basis of magnetostratigraphic data from the Pyrenean Basin and by biostratigraphic correlation with the biozonations of calcareous nannoplankton and planktonic foraminifera in the eastern and central part of Tethys.

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