Setoyama, Eiichi et al. (2011): Campanian agglutinated Foraminifera from the Lomonosov Ridge, IODP Expedition 302, ACEX, in the paleogeographic context of the Arctic Ocean

Leg/Site/Hole:
IODP 302
IODP 302 M0004
Identifier:
2012-062840
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Creator:
Setoyama, Eiichi
Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geological Sciences, Cracow, Poland
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Kaminski, Michael A.
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia
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Tyszka, Jaroslaw
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Identification:
Campanian agglutinated Foraminifera from the Lomonosov Ridge, IODP Expedition 302, ACEX, in the paleogeographic context of the Arctic Ocean
2011
Micropaleontology
American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, United States
57
6
507-530
We document the occurrence of agglutinated foraminifera in Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) sediments recovered during the Arctic Coring Expedition (ACEX), IODP Expedition 302. Foraminiferal assemblages consist entirely of agglutinated taxa with 29 taxa including three new species (Labrospira macilenta, Recurvoidella arctica, and Recurvoides trochoidalis). The agglutinated assemblage from the Lomonosov Ridge represents a shallow, probably restricted, brackish environment, and displays some taxonomic affinity to Late Cretaceous assemblages described from the Beaufort-Mackenzie basin. There are no species in common with coeval assemblages described from the southwestern Barents Sea or Western Siberia, and also only several cosmopolitan species in common between the later two regions. Therefore we suggest that the Arctic Ocean was probably isolated from the North Atlantic faunal province during the Late Cretaceous, with very limited or no marine connections between the Arctic, North Atlantic and Western Siberia over the Barents Shelf.
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Coverage:Geographic coordinates:
North:87.5200
West:136.1100East: 136.1100
South:87.5200

Invertebrate paleontology; Stratigraphy; Arctic Coring EXpedition; Arctic Ocean; biogeography; brackish-water environment; Campanian; Cretaceous; Expedition 302; faunal list; faunal studies; Foraminifera; Integrated Ocean Drilling Program; Invertebrata; IODP Site M0004; Labrospira macilenta; lithostratigraphy; Lomonosov Ridge; Mesozoic; microfossils; morphology; new taxa; paleoenvironment; paleogeography; preservation; Protista; Recurvoidella arctica; Recurvoides trochoidalis; SEM data; Senonian; taxonomy; Upper Cretaceous;

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