Sarkar, Sudipta and Gupta, Anil K. (2008): Five new species of benthic Foraminifera from upper Pleistocene sequence in ODP Hole 716A, Maldives Ridge, equatorial Indian Ocean
Leg/Site/Hole:
Related Expeditions:
ODP 115
Identifier:
ID:
2011-066586
Type:
georefid
Creator:
Name:
Sarkar, Sudipta
Affiliation:
Indian Institute of Technology, Department of Geology and Geophysics, Kharagpur, India
Role:
author
Name:
Gupta, Anil K.
Affiliation:
Role:
author
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Title:
Five new species of benthic Foraminifera from upper Pleistocene sequence in ODP Hole 716A, Maldives Ridge, equatorial Indian Ocean
Year:
2008
Source:
Micropaleontology
Publisher:
American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, United States
Volume:
54
Issue:
2
Pages:
176-184
Abstract:
Study of benthic foraminifera from late Pleistocene (-444 Kyr to 150 Kyr BP) samples from Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Hole 716A (4 degrees 56.0'N, 73 degrees 17.0'E; present water depth 533.3 m), Maldives Ridge, equatorial Indian Ocean, led to the discovery of one new genus Acostinella n. gen. and five new species of benthic foraminifera including Adelosina bhallai n. sp., Siphonaperta bhallai n. sp., Triloculinella bhallai n. sp., Hofkeruva sahaii n. sp., Acostinella sahaii n. sp. These taxa were examined under the scanning electron microscope, which has helped to explain their morphological descriptions and assign them a taxonomic classification. The taxa have rare and sporadic occurrences at Hole 716A and thus we do not know their potential in paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic reconstructions, which requires further studies from other parts of the Indian Ocean
Language:
English
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Coverage: Geographic coordinates: North:4.5600 West:73.1700 East:
73.1700 South:4.5600
Keywords: Invertebrate paleontology; Acostinella sahaii; Adelosina bhallai; benthic taxa; Cenozoic; faunal studies; Foraminifera; Hofkeruva sahaii; Indian Ocean; Invertebrata; Leg 115; Maldives Ridge; marine environment; microfossils; morphology; new taxa; Ocean Drilling Program; ODP Site 716; paleoenvironment; Pleistocene; Protista; Quaternary; SEM data; Siphonaperta bhallai; taxonomy; Triloculinella bhallai; upper Pleistocene;
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