The samples from Leg 29 were compared with the radiolarians in the cores of bottom sediments, taken in the Antarctic and subantarctic by the R/V Ob and Eltanin. Such a comparison was necessary, since some of these cores can be considered as stratotypical for the Pleistocene, Pliocene, and even the uppermost Miocene of high southern hemisphere latitudes. Since the stratigraphy and isolation of "radiolarian zones" is based on the temporal and spatial distribution of individual species, the goal of this micropaleontological study is to establish the limits and content of the individual radiolarian species. (auth/EB)