Print this pageAbstract: Coccolithus pelagicus: Clarification
Variations (species) of Coccolithus pelagicus are common in nannoplankton floras from both warm- and cold-water sediments. These species can and should be used for stratigraphic paleontologic analyses: Coccolithus pelagicus (Wallich); C. carteri (Wallich); C. pliopelagicus; C. cf. C. pliopelagicus; C. miopelagicus; and C. eopelagicus (Bramlette and Riedel). A sequence of datum planes are suggested herein which are based upon the first and last stratigraphic presence of the various species.
AAPG Search and Discovery Article #90976©1976 AAPG-SEPM-SEG Pacific Section Meeting, San Francisco, California