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Comparative analysis of six common foraminiferal species of the genera Cassidulina, Paracassidulina, and Islandiella from the Arctic–North Atlantic domain
School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, Keele University, Newcastle-under-Lyme,
Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, United Kingdom
Anna J. Pieńkowski
Department of Arctic Geology, University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS),
Longyearbyen, 9171 Svalbard, Norway
current address: Norwegian Polar Institute, Longyearbyen, 9171
Svalbard, Norway
Anne Jennings
INSTAAR, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0450, USA
Karen Luise Knudsen
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimate Group, Department of Geoscience,
Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimate Group, Department of Geoscience,
Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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J. Micropalaeontol., 38, 177–187, https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-38-177-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-38-177-2019, 2019
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Malcolm B. Hart, Kevin N. Page, Gregory D. Price, and Christopher W. Smart
J. Micropalaeontol., 38, 133–142, https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-38-133-2019, https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-38-133-2019, 2019
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Benthic foraminifera often colonize marine underwater vegetation in tropical regions. We studied these so-called epiphytic foraminifera in a shallow bay in the Bahamas. Here the foraminifera differed between types of vegetation, but sedimentological processes seem to be the main controller of the dead foraminifera in the sediment. This indicates that in carbonate platform regions, epiphytic foraminifera should only be used cautiously as direct indicators of past in situ marine vegetation.
Jeroen Groeneveld, Helena L. Filipsson, William E. N. Austin, Kate Darling, David McCarthy, Nadine B. Quintana Krupinski, Clare Bird, and Magali Schweizer
J. Micropalaeontol., 37, 403–429, https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-37-403-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-37-403-2018, 2018
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Current climate and environmental changes strongly affect shallow marine and coastal areas like the Baltic Sea. The combination of foraminiferal geochemistry and environmental parameters demonstrates that in a highly variable setting like the Baltic Sea, it is possible to separate different environmental impacts on the foraminiferal assemblages and therefore use chemical factors to reconstruct how seawater temperature, salinity, and oxygen varied in the past and may vary in the future.
Lyndsey R. Fox, Stephen Stukins, Tom Hill, and Haydon W. Bailey
J. Micropalaeontol., 37, 395–401, https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-37-395-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-37-395-2018, 2018
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This paper describes five new Mesozoic deep-water benthic foraminifera from the former British Petroleum microfossil reference collections at the Natural History Museum, London.
Joachim Schönfeld
J. Micropalaeontol., 37, 383–393, https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-37-383-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-37-383-2018, 2018
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Benthic foraminifera from the Bottsand coastal lagoon, western Baltic Sea, have been monitored annually since 2003 and accompanied by hydrographic measurements since 2012. Elphidium incertum, a stenohaline species of the Baltic deep water fauna, colonised the lagoon in 2016, most likely during a period of salinities > 19 units and average temperatures of 18 °C in early autumn. The high salinities probably triggered their germination from a propagule bank in the lagoonal bottom sediment.
Ercan Özcan, Johannes Pignatti, Christer Pereira, Ali Osman Yücel, Katica Drobne, Filippo Barattolo, and Pratul Kumar Saraswati
J. Micropalaeontol., 37, 357–381, https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-37-357-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-37-357-2018, 2018
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We carried out a morphometric study of late Paleocene orthophragminids from the Mawmluh Quarry section in the Shillong Plateau, India. We recorded the occurrence of two species of Orbitoclypeus, whereas the other typical Tethyan genera Discocyclina is absent. We also identified the associated benthic foraminifera and algae. Shallow benthic zones (SBZ) 3 and 4 have been recognized in the section. The timing of transition from shallow marine to continental deposition is commented on.
Laura J. Cotton, Wolfgang Eder, and James Floyd
J. Micropalaeontol., 37, 347–356, https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-37-347-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-37-347-2018, 2018
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Shallow-water carbonate deposits rich in larger benthic foraminifera (LBF) are well-known from the Eocene of the Americas. However, there have been few recent LBF studies in this region. Here we present the LBF ranges from two previously unpublished sections from the Ocala limestone, Florida. The study indicates that the lower member of the Ocala limestone may be Bartonian rather than Priabonian in age, with implications for regional biostratigraphy.
Catherine Girard, Anne-Béatrice Dufour, Anne-Lise Charruault, and Sabrina Renaud
J. Micropalaeontol., 37, 87–95, https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-37-87-2018, https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-37-87-2018, 2018
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This study constitutes an attempt to analyze the variations in foraminiferal assemblages using the morphogroup approach in the Late Devonian. Our results show that both methods of estimating morphotype percentages, the traditional counting and the cumulated area methods, provide similar results, are highly correlated with each other, and provide similar relationships with paleoenvironmental proxies.
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Short summary
Morphologically similar benthic foraminifera taxa are difficult to separate, resulting in incorrect identifications, complications understanding species-specific ecological preferences, and flawed reconstructions of past environments. Here we provide descriptions and illustrated guidelines on how to separate some key Arctic–North Atlantic species to circumvent taxonomic confusion, improve understanding of ecological affinities, and work towards more accurate palaeoenvironmental reconstructions.
Morphologically similar benthic foraminifera taxa are difficult to separate, resulting in...
