Annual Report 2007 of the Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group The Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group held two very successful meetings in 2007 concentrating on the review and synthesis of Oligocene planktonic foraminiferal taxonomy. The first was hosted by Vlasta Premec-Fucek and Morana Hernitz Kucenjak in May and the second hosted by Christoph Hemleben and […]
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Annual Report 2008 of the Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group Following the last highly successful meeting of the Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group in December 2007, this year we have obtained many missing holotype images and started to prepare taxonomic plates. Chengjie Liu hosted a two day meeting mini working group meeting at ExxonMobil, with […]
Annual Report 2009 of the Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group The Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group continued their work towards a major revision of the Oligocene planktonic foraminifera. A meeting attended by 14 members was held at the University of Fribourg in June hosted by Silvia Spezzaferi. Here the group reported on progress and discussed […]
Annual Report 2010 of the Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group The Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group held their 8th meeting on the taxonomy and evolution of Oligocene planktonic foraminifera at the Goldfuß-Museum, Steinmann Institut, Bonn, Germany (hosted by Martin Langer and convened Bridget Wade and Michal Kucera) in early September before the Forams 2010 meeting […]
Annual Report 2011 of the Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group The Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group held their 9th meeting on the taxonomy and evolution of Oligocene planktonic foraminifera at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., Department of Paleobiology, (National Museum of Natural History, hosted by Brian Huber) in September 2011. Work towards completion of the […]
Annual Report 2012 of the Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group The Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group did not meet this year and efforts have concentrated on preparing chapters and plates for publication of the Atlas of Oligocene Planktonic Foraminifera. To date five chapters have been submitted and reviewed, and others are well developed or in […]
Annual Report 2013 of the Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group The Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group has been progressing towards the completion of the Atlas of Oligocene Planktonic Foraminifera. Many chapters have now been submitted, with plates, synonymies and phylogenies, and are undergoing internal review and revision. Some issues regarding the wall texture and phylogeny […]
In 2003-2004 the Ypresian/Lutetian Boundary Stratotype Working Group continued the search of a suitable section in which eventually define the GSSP. The Punta Torcida section in Argentina was visited and sampled, but unfortunately is not a good candidate, since in shallow marine environments, such as the Austral Basin in Tierra del Fuego, there is a […]
In Agost, Alicante province (Spain) was recently found a good section, which seems to be the most suitable candidate for the definition of the Ypresian/Lutetian Boundary Stratotype. It is a new section placed 1 km west of the section studied by Molina et al. (2000). Planktic foraminiferal biostratigraphy indicated that the new section is more […]
The new section found last year in Agost, Betic Cordillera, Alicante province (Spain) has been intensively studied. Biostratigraphy by means of planktic foraminifera, calcareous nannofossils, small benthic foraminifera and larger foraminifera indicated that the section is continuous and quite expanded. The magnetostratigraphical study reveals a series of reversed and normal chrons, which are now being […]