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By H. M. Bolli, J.-P. Beckmann, J. B. Saunders
This booklet provides an enormous info set for benthic foraminifera present in the vintage southern Caribbean zone. It assembles information on one thousand of an important species for the time span Cretaceous to Miocene (120 to ten million years ahead of present). Age levels are put in the framework of these used for planktic foraminifera present in Plankton Stratigraphy (Bolli et al., CUP, 1985). The taxa were cited thus far generically, and in lots of instances new comparisons between species were made--the past due Cretaceous and Early Paleogene are relatively distinct. this data, including specific illustrations, will let the taxa for use stratigraphically.
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