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... Instead, a typical high-latitude Zone NP1 assemblage with common Thoracosphaera and Broarudosphaera is present immediately above the K/T boundary. Thus, it is because of a hiatus, rather than catastrophic extinctions, that all planktic foraminiferal species truncate at the lKlT boundary and Tertiary species suddenly appear.
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... 85 At L11 At ILL At LL 1 loo At LL cn o 31dW~C lOH111 HldBO 380~)
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  • cretaceous species
  • species extinctions
  • planktic foraminiferal
  • planktic foraminifera
  • tertiary species

  • basal tertiary
  • dsdp site
  • foraminiferal species
  • antarctic ocean


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