Paleoecology, Biostratigraphy, Paleoceanography and Taxonomy of Agglutinated Foraminifera

1001 Pages·1990·47.11 MB·English

by  Christoph Hemleben, Michael A. Kaminski (auth.), Christoph Hemleben, Michael A. Kaminski, Wolfgang Kuhnt, David B. Scott (eds.)

Paleoecology, Biostratigraphy, Paleoceanography
and Taxonomy of Agglutinated Foraminifera
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Paleoecology, Biostratigraphy,
Paleoceanography and
Taxonomy of Agglutinated
Foraminifera
edited by
Christoph Hemleben
Geologisches Institut, Universităt TObingen,
TObingen, FRG
Michael A. Kaminski
GEOMAR, Forschungszentrum fOr Marine Geowissenschaften,
Kiel, FRG
Wolfgang Kuhnt
Geologisches Institut, Universităt TObingen,
TObingen, FRG
and
David B. Seott
Centre for Marine Geology, Dalhousie University,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Springer Science+Business Media, B.v.
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on
Paleoecology, Biostratigraphy, Paleoceanography and Taxonomy
of Agglutinated Foraminifera
TObingen, FRG
September 17-29, 1989
Paleoecology, biostratigraphy, paleoceanography and taxonomy of
agglutlnated foramlnifera I edlted by Christoph Hemleben ... [et
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Papers from the Third International Workshop an Agglutinated
Foraminifera, held in Tubingen, Sept. 17-20, 1989, and sponsored by
the SClentific Affairs DIVlsion of the North Atlantic Treaty
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE ............................................................................................................................. xi
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS ................................................................................................... xiii
PART 1-STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION OF AGGLUTINATED FORAMINIFERA 1
AGGLUTINATED FORAMINIFERA: AN INTRODUCTION
CHRISTOPH HEMLEBEN' AND MICHAEL A. KAMINSKI ....................................................... 3
WHY ARE FORAMINIFERIDA FORAMINIFERS?
OLE S. TENDAL * .................................................................................................................1 3
COMPOSITION AND MICROSTRUCTURE OF AGGLUTINATED FORAMINIFER WALL
VERA M. PODOBINA ......................................................................................................... 19
WALL STRUCTURES OF P ALAEOTEXTULARIID FORAMINIFERS AND DISCUSSION OF
MICROGRANULAR TEST WALLS
WERNER E. PILLER ............................................................................................................ 25
PARTITIONS AND FISTULOSE CHAMBERLETS IN TEXTULARIINA
LUKAS HOTTINGER, ELVIRA HALICZ AND Zt:EV REISS ........................................................ 37
PART 2 -TAXONOMY AND CLASSIFICATION 51
ABYSSAL AGGLUTINATES: BACK TO BASICS
WILLIAM A. BERGGREN' AND MICHAEL A. KAMINSKI •................................................... .53
ON THE WAY TO THE OPTIMAL SUPRAGENERIC CLASSIFICATION OF
AGGLUTINATING FORAMINIFERA
JOHANN HOHENEGGER .................................................................................................... 77
REVISION OF THE TROCHAMMINACEA AND REMANEICACEA OF THE PLYMOUTH
DISTRICT, S.W. ENGLAND, DESCRIBED BY HERON-ALLEN AND EARLAND (1930)
PAUL BRONNIMANN AND JOHN E. WHITTAKER ............................................................. 105
AGGLUTINATED FORAMINIFERA FROM Tl-m PALAEOGENE OF THE NORTH SEA
MICHAEL A. CHARNOCK, AND ROBERT W. JONES .......................................................... 139
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GEROCHAMMINA N.G. AND RELATED GENERA FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS
FLYSCH-TYPE BENTHIC FORAMINIFERAL FAUNA, EASTERN CARPATHIANS
ROMANIA
THEODOR NEAGU .......................................................................................................... 245
PART 3 -ECOLOGIC DISTRIBUTION FROM ABYSSAL TO MARGINAL MARINE
ENVIRONMENTS 267
A. DEEP-WATER ENVIRONMENTS 269
RECENT DEEP-SEA AGGLUTINATED FORAMINIFERA: A BRIEF REVIEW
ANDREW J. GOODAY* ..................................................................................................... 271
THE ECOLOGY, DISTRIBUTION AND TAXONOMY OF CRlTHIONINA HISPIDA FLINT,
1899
ANDREA THIES ............................................................................................................... 305
HIGH LATITUDE AGGLUTINATED FORAMINIFERA: PRYDZ BAY (ANTARCTICA) VS.
LANCASTER SOUND (CANADIAN ARCTIC)
CLAUDIA J. SCHRODER-ADAMS ..................................................................................... 315
BIOSTRATIGRAPHY AND PALEOECOLOGY OF DEEP-WATER AGGLUTINATED
FORAMINIFERA AT ODP SITE 643, NORWEGIAN-GREENLAND SEA
MICHAEL A. KAMINSKI, FELIX M. GRADSTEIN, ROBERT.M. GOLL, AND
DENNIS. GREIG ...............................................................................................................3 45
DANIAN DEEP-WATER (BATHYAL) AGGLUTINATED FORAMINIFERA FROM
BAVARIA AND THEIR COMPARISON WITH APPROXIMATELY COEVAL
AGGLUTINATED ASSEMBLAGES FROM SENEGAL AND TRINIDAD
IVAN DE KLASZ' AND SANDRINE DE KLASZ .................................................................... 387
PALEOECOLOGY OF LATE CRETACEOUS TO PALEOCENE DEEP-WATER AGGLU
TINATED FORAMINIFERA FROM THE NORTH ATLANTIC AND WESTERN TETHYS
WOLFGANG KUHNT' AND MICHAEL A. KAMINSKI ....................................................... .433
DEEP WATER AGGLUTINATED FORAMINIFERAL ASSEMBLAGES FROM UPPER
CRETACEOUS RED SHALES OF THE MAGURA NAPPE I POLISH OUTER CARP A THIANS
EWA MALATA AND NESTOR OSZCZYPKO ....................................................................... .507
THE OLDEST ASSEMBLAGES OF AGGLUTINATED FORAMINIFERS OF THE POLISH
FLYSCH CARP A THIANS
STANISLAW GEROCH AND BARBARA OLSZEWSKA ........................................................ .525
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B. -NERITIC ENVIRONMENTS 539
FAUNAL TRENDS AND ASSEMBLAGES OF THE NORTHERN SOUTH CHINA SEA
AGGLUTINATED FORAMINIFERA
SHOUYI ZHENG AND Z. FU ............................................................................................. .541
AGGLUTINATED FORAMINIFERA IN ORGANIC-RICH NERITIC CARBONATES (UPPER
CRETACEOUS, ISRAEL) AND THEIR USE IN IDENTIFYING OXYGEN LEVELS IN
OXYGEN-POOR ENVIRONMENTS
AHUVA ALMOGI-LABIN, AMOS BEIN AND EYTA N SASS ................................................... .565
AGGLUTINATED FORAMINIFERA FROM THE ALBIAN AND CENOMANIAN OF
JORDAN
KONRAD F. WEIDICH AND TALEB AL-HARITHI ................................................................5 87
FACIES CONTROLLED DISTRIBUTION OF FORAMINIFERA IN THE JURASSIC NORTH
SEA BASIN
JENO NAGY', BJORN PILSKOG AND RAGNHILD MARIE WILHELMSEN .............................6 21
c. -
MARGINAL MARINE AND LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENTS 659
VARIATIONS IN ESTUARINE FORAMINIFERAL BIOFACIES WITH DIMINISHING
OXYGEN CONDITIONS IN DRAMMENSFJORD, SE NORWAY.
ELISABETH AL VE ..............................................................................................................6 61
SEASONALITY IN THE BENTHIC FORAMINIFERAL COMMUNITY AND THE LIFE
HISTORY OF TROCHAMMINA HADAI UCHIO IN HAMANA LAKE, JAPAN.
SATOSHI MATSUSHITA AND HIROSHI KITAZATO ............................................................6 95
RECENT MARSH FORAMINIFERA FROM THE EAST COAST OF SOUTH AMERICA:
COMPARISON TO THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE
DAVID B. SCOTT, ENRIQUE J. SCHNACK, LAURA FERRERO, MARCELA ESPINOSA, AND CATIA F.
BARBOSA .......................................................................................................................7 17
ESTUARINE AND MARSH FORAMINIFERA FROM THE LOWER CRETACEOUS OF THE
LUSITANIAN BASIN, WEST PORTUGAL
WINTON G. WIGHTMAN ................................................................................................7 39
RECENT MARSH-TYPE AGGLUTINATED FORAMINIFERA FROM INLAND SALT
SPRINGS, MANITOBA, CANADA
R. TIMOTHY PATTERSON, DAVID B. SCOTT, AND W. BRIAN McKILLOP .............................. 765
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BIOGEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF MODERN THECAMOEBIANS IN A TRANSECT
ALONG THE EASTERN NORTH AMERICAN COAST
ERIC S. COLLINS, FRANCINE M. G. McCARTHY, FRANCO S. MEDIOLI, DA VID B. SCOTT AND
CECILY A. HONIG ............................................................................................................ 783
THECAMOEBIANS FROM THE EARLY CRETACEOUS DEPOSITS OF RUBY CREEK,
ALBERTA (CANADA)
FRANCO S. MEDIOLI, DAVID B. SCOTT, ERIC S. COLLINS, AND JOHN H. WALL ................... 793
FOSSIL THECAMOEBIANS: PRESENT STATUS AND PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE
FRANCO S. MEDlOLI', DAVID B. SCOTT, ERIC S. COLLINS AND
FRANCINE M.G. McCARTHY ........................................................................................... 813
PART 4 -BIOSTRATIGRAPHY AND APPLIED STUDIES IN THE TETHYS REGION, HIGH
LATITUDE BASINS, AND BRITAIN 841
STRATIGRAPHICALLY IMPORTANT AGGLUTINATED FORAMINIFERA IN THE
BADENIAN (MIOCENE M4) OF POLAND
EWA LUCZKOWSKA ........................................................................................................ 843
FORAMINIFERAL BIOSTRATIGRAPHY AND SEISMIC SEQUENCES -- EXAMPLES FROM
THE CENOZOIC OF THE BEAUFORT-MACKENZIE BASIN, ARCTIC CANADA
DAVID H. McNEIL', J.R. DIETRICH, AND J. DIXON ............................................................8 59
DEEP-WATER AGGLUTINATED FORAMINIFERA FROM THE MASSIGNANO SECTION
(ANCONA, ITALY), A PROPOSED STRATOTYPE FOR THE EOCENE-OLIGOCENE
BOUNDARY
MARIELLA BELLAGAMBA AND RODOLFO COCCIONI* ..................................................... 883
AGGLUTINATED FORAMINIFERA, BIOSTRATIGRAPHY AND INTRAREGIONAL
CORRELATION OF UPPER CRETACEOUS DEPOSITS OF EASTERN URALS
EDWARD O. AMON AND GEORGY N. PAPULOV ............................................................... 923
CRETACEOUS AGGLUTINATED FORAMINIFERA OF THE UK: A REVIEW
MALCOLM B. HART* .......................................................................................................... 929
AGGLUTINATED FORAMINIFERIDA FROM THE ALBIAN / CENOMANIAN BOUNDARY
IN SE ENGLAND
MALCOLM B. HART, DAVID J. CARTER, PAUL N. LEARY AND ASH D. TAL WAR .................... 945
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THE APPLICATION OF MIDDLE JURASSIC-EARLY CRETACEOUS AGGLUTINATED
FORAMINIFERA TO THE OFFSHORE CORRELATION OF HUMBER GROUP SEDIMENTS
IN THE NORTH VIKING GRABEN
PETER H. MORRIS AND ROBIN DYER ............................................................................... 961
AGGLUTINATED FORAMINIFERAL STRATIGRAPHY OF MIDDLE JURASSIC TO BASAL
CRETACEOUS SHALES, CENTRAL SPITSBERGEN.
JENO NAGY, MAGNE L0FALDLI, SVEN A. BACKSTROM AND HALVOR JOHANSEN ............. 969
LIST OF REVIEWERS .................................................................................................... 1 017
(* keynote speakers)
PREFACE
Agglutinated foraminifera are among the most widely distributed and abundant groups of
marine meiofauna in some environments (e.g. marshes, deep-sea). They are tolerant of
environmental extremes, tending to live where the evolutionarily more advanced calcareous
foraminifera cannot survive. However, largely because of historical reasons, the amount of
scientific effort invested in this group has been small in comparison to studies of other
marine organisms.
The NATO Advanced Studies Institute conference on the paleoecology, biostratigraphy,
paleoceanography and taxonomy of agglutinated foraminifera in TUbingen September 17-29,
1989, was a direct outgrowth of two previous workshops on agglutinated foraminifers held
in Amsterdam in September 1981 (IW AF I) and in Vienna in June 1986 (IW AF 11). As such,
the TUbingen conference constitutes the Third International Workshop on Agglutinated
Foraminifera (IW AF III) and was organised to provide a platform for synthesizing the current
state of knowledge on this group of organisms, and to strengthen interactions between basic
research and applied micropaleontology. One of the main underlying themes of the conferen:e
was to identify topics in the paleoecology, biostratigraphy, paleoceanography and taxonomy
of agglutinated foraminifera which are in urgent need of further research.
About 80 scientists and students from 5 continents participated in the TUbingen conference,
which is one measure of the growth in interest in agglutinated foraminifers over the past
decade. During four days of technical sessions, scientific results were communicated in the
form of 34 oral presentations and 15 poster displays. The field excursion held after the
technical session visited important localities in Bavaria, Austria, Northern Italy, and
Switzerland. The field trip provided an excellent opportunity to reexamine many of the classic
localities for deep-water agglutinated foraminifera and obtain comparative material.
This conference was sponsored by the Scientific Affairs Division of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization, with additional contributions by the Geological Institute of the
University of TUbingen, the Volksbank TUbingen, and the cartography sections of the
German Army at Ulm, who printed the field excursion guidebook. The Organizing Committee
consisted of Christoph Hemleben (TUbingen), David B. Scott (Dalhousie University), Michael
A. Kaminski (GEOMAR) and Wolfgang Kuhnt (TUbingen). Ingrid Breitinger undertook the
task of coordinating logistics and registration. Other individuals who contributed directly to
the success of this meeting include Sciren DUrr, Gerlinde Hockh, Horst HUttemann, Dorothee
MUhlen, Bodo ROdiger and Marion Simson (all of TUbingen). Jane Barrett (Dalhousie) was
the corresponding secretary. The field excursion benefited largely from the experience of
Enrica Morlotti (Parma), Wilfried Winkler (ETH ZUrich), and the help of Winfried Mack. We
extend our sincere gratitude to each of those persons and to everyone who contributed to
making this meeting a success.
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