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... As among planktic foraminifera, the vanishing Cretaceous species in lower Tertiary sediments are essentially the same group of species that are common in terminal Cretaceous sediments: Arkhangelskiella cymbiformis, Cretarhabdus crenulatus, Eiffellithus turriseiffelii, Micula
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Key Terms

  • mass extinction
  • cretaceous species
  • species extinctions
  • planktic foraminifera
  • tertiary species

  • cretaceous survivors
  • earliest tertiary
  • dsdp site
  • vanishing cretaceous
  • extinction pattern

  • stable isotope
  • antarctic ocean


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