Articles | Volume 45, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-45-309-2026
https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-45-309-2026
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27 Apr 2026
Comment/reply |  | 27 Apr 2026

Comment on “Chronostratigraphic ranges of Early–Middle Miocene larger benthic foraminifera calibrated by planktonic foraminiferal assemblages (Sierra de Marmolance, Granada, SE Spain)” by Bolivar-Feriche et al. (2025)

Cesare A. Papazzoni, Andrea Benedetti, Antonino Briguglio, Lorenzo Consorti, and György Less

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Bolivar-Feriche, M., Reolid, J., Aguirre, J., Bassi, D., and Braga, J. C.: Chronostratigraphic ranges of Early–Middle Miocene larger benthic foraminifera calibrated by planktonic foraminiferal assemblages (Sierra de Marmolance, Granada, SE Spain), J. Micropalaeontol., 44, 573–599, https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-44-573-2025, 2025. 
Short summary
Oligocene fossils were retrieved from a Miocene deposit. Authors stated that their age should expand into the Miocene accordingly. Miocene age was not directly retrieved from the studied deposits but from a nearby outcrop not clearly connected to the studied succession. We argue that transportation events might have simply reworked Oligocene fossils into the Miocene material, as commonly occurs in ramp environments.
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