The calcareous nannofossil record across the Late Cretaceous Turonian/Coniacian boundary, including new data from Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and England

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 40-64

  Lees, Jackie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Boundary stratotype; Brezno; Calcareous nannofossils; Czech Republic; England; Germany; Langdon Stairs; Poland; Salzgitter Salder; Slupia Nadbrzezna; Turonian Coniacian boundary

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; BIVALVE; CONIACIAN; FOSSIL RECORD; NANOFOSSIL; STRATOTYPE; TURONIAN;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; POLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

BIVALVIA; CREMNOCERAMUS; CREMNOCERAMUS DEFORMIS; INOCERAMIDAE; MICULA;

EID: 39249085562     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2007.08.002     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Bailey H.W., Gale A.S., Mortimore R.N., Swiecicki A., and Wood C.J. Biostratigraphical criteria for the recognition of the Coniacian to Maastrichtian stage boundaries in the Chalk of north-west Europe, with particular reference to southern England. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 33 (1984) 31-39
2. Birkelund T., Hancock J.M., Hart M.B., Rawson P.F., Remane J., Robaszynski F., Schmid F., and Surlyk F. Cretaceous stage boundaries - Proposals. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 33 (1984) 3-20
3. In: Bown P.R. (Ed). Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy. British Micropalaeontological Society Series (1998), Chapman and Hall/Kluwer Academic Publishers, London 315 pp
4. Bown P.R., Lees J.A., and Young J.R. Calcareous nannoplankton evolution and diversity through time. In: Thierstein H., and Young J.R. (Eds). Coccolithophores - From Molecular Processes to Global Impact (2004), Springer, Berlin 481-508
5. Bown P.R., and Young J.R. Techniques. In: Bown P.R. (Ed). Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy. British Micropalaeontological Society Series (1998), Chapman and Hall/Kluwer Academic Publishers, London 16-28
6. Burnett J.A. New species and new combinations of Cretaceous nannofossils, and a note on the origin of Petrarhabdus (Deflandre) Wind & Wise. Journal of Nannoplankton Research 19 (1997) 133-146
7. Burnett J.A., (with contributions from L.T. Gallagher, and M.J. Hampton). Upper Cretaceous. In: Bown P.R. (Ed). Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy. British Micropalaeontological Society Series (1998), Chapman and Hall/Kluwer Academic Publishers, London 132-199
8. Burnett J.A., and Whitham F. Correlation between the nannofossil and macrofossil biostratigraphies and the lithostratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous of NE England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 52 (1999) 371-381
9. Cech S. Upper Cretaceous Didymotis Events from Bohemia. In: Wiedmann J. (Ed). Cretaceous of the Western Tethys. Proceedings of the Third International Cretaceous Symposium, Tübingen 1987 (1989), E. Schweizerbart, Stuttgart 657-676
10. Cech S., Hradecká L., Laurin J., Staffen Z., Svábenická L., and Ulicny D. Locality 3: Úpohlavy quarry. In: Cech S., Úlicny D., and Voigt T. (Eds). Fifth International Cretaceous Symposium and Second Workshop on Inoceramids, Field Excursion B1, Stratigraphy and Facies of the Bohemian-Saxonian Cretaceous Basin (1996) 32-42 Freiburg
11. Cech S., Klein V., Kriz J., and Valecka J. Revision of the Upper Cretaceous stratigraphy of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin. Vestnik Ústredního ústavu geologického 55 (1980) 277-296
12. Cech S., and Svábenická L. Macrofossils and nannofossils of the type locality of the Brezno Formation (Turonian-Coniacian, Bohemia). Vestník Ceského geologického ústavu 67 (1992) 311-330
13. Crux J.A. Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian to Campanian) calcareous nannofossils. In: Lord A.R. (Ed). A Stratigraphical Index of Calcareous Nannofossils. British Micropalaeontological Society Series (1982), Ellis Horwood Limited, Chichester 81-135
14. Ernst G., Schmid F., and Klisches G. Multistratigraphische Untersuchungen in der Oberkreide des Raumes Braunschweig-Hannover. In: Wiedmann J. (Ed). Aspekte der Kreide Europas. IUGS Series A 6 (1979) 11-46
15. Gale A.S., and Woodroof P.B. A Coniacian ammonite from the 'Top Rock' in the Chalk of Kent. Geological Magazine 118 (1981) 557-560
16. Kauffman E.G., Kennedy W.J., and Wood C.J. The Coniacian stage and substage boundaries. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique Sciences de la Terre 66 supplement (1996) 81-94
17. Kennedy W.J., and Walaszczyk I. Forresteria (Harleites) petrocoriensis (COQUAND, 1859) from the Upper Turonian Mytiloides scupini Zone of Slupia Nadbrzezna, Poland. Acta Geologica Polonica 54 (2004) 55-59
18. Krhovsky J. The stratigraphical position of the lower boundary of the Marthasterites furcatus nannoplankton zone in the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin. Vestnik Ustredniho ustavu geologickeho 56 (1981) 21-26
19. Lamolda M.A., and Proto Decima F. The Turonian-Coniacian Boundary in Ollogoyen (Basque Country); Foraminifers and Nannoplankton. Cretaceous Research 7 (1986) 63-75
20. Lees J.A. Calcareous nannofossil biogeography illustrates palaeoclimate change in the late Cretaceous Indian Ocean. Cretaceous Research 23 (2002) 537-633
21. Manivit, H., 1971. Nannofossiles calcaires du Crétacé francais (Aptien-Maestrichtien). Essai de Biozonation appuyée sur les stratotypes. Unpublished thése doctoral, Université de Paris: 278 pp.
22. Melinte M.C. Turonian-Coniacian nannofossil events in the East and South Carpathians (Romania). Revista Española de Micropaleontología 31 (1999) 369-377
23. Mortimore R.N. Stratigraphy of the Upper Cretaceous White Chalk of Sussex. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 97 (1986) 97-140
24. Perch-Nielsen K. Calcareous nannofossils from the Cretaceous between the North Sea and the Mediterranean. In: Wiedmann J. (Ed). Aspekte der Kreide Europas. IUGS Series A 6 (1979) 223-272
25. Perch-Nielsen K. Recognition of Cretaceous stage boundaries by means of calcareous nannofossils. In: Birkelund T., Bromley R., Christensen W.K., Håkansson E., and Surlyk F. (Eds). Symposium on Cretaceous Stage Boundaries, Copenhagen, October 18-21, 1983, Abstracts (1983), University of Copenhagen 152-156
26. Perch-Nielsen K. Mesozoic calcareous nannofossils. In: Bolli H.M., Saunders J.B., and Perch-Nielsen K. (Eds). Plankton Stratigraphy (1985), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 329-426
27. Robaszynski F. Conclusions to the Colloquium on the Turonian stage: Integrated biostratigraphic charts and facies maps (France and adjacent areas). Zitteliana 10 (1983) 585-594
28. Robinson N.D. Lithostratigraphy of the Chalk Group of the North Downs, southeast England. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 97 (1986) 141-170
29. Sikora P.J., Howe R.W., Gale A.S., and Stein J.A. Chronostratigraphy of proposed Turonian-Coniacian (Upper Cretaceous) stage boundary stratotypes: Salzgitter-Salder, Germany, and Wagon Mound, New Mexico, USA. In: Beaudoin A.B., and Head M.J. (Eds). The Palynology and Micropalaeontology of Boundaries. Geological Society, London Special, Publications 230 (2004) 207-242
30. Sissingh W. Biostratigraphy of Cretaceous calcareous nannoplankton. Geologie en Mijnbouw 56 (1977) 37-65
31. Svábenická L. Upper Cretaceous nannofossils from the Klement Formation (Flysch Belt of the west Carpathians, Czechoslovakia). Knihovnicka ZPN 14a (1992) 189-205
32. Varol O., and Girgis M. New taxa and taxonomy of some Jurassic to Cretaceous calcareous nannofossils. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 192 (1994) 221-253
33. Walaszczyk I. Turonian through Santonian deposits of the Central Polish Uplands: their facies development, inoceramid paleontology and stratigraphy. Acta Geologica Polonica 42 (1992) 1-122
34. Walaszczyk I., and Cobban W.A. Inoceramid faunas and biostratigraphy of the Upper Turonian-Lower Coniacian of the United States Western Interior. Special Papers in Palaeontology 64 (2000) 118
35. Walaszczyk I., and Wood C.J. Inoceramids and biostratigraphy at the Turonian/Coniacian boundary; based on the Salzgitter-Salder Quarry, Lower Saxony, Germany, and the Slupia Nadbrzezna section, Central Poland. Acta Geologica Polonica 48 (1998) 395-434
36. Wiese F., Cech S., Ekrt B., Kost'ak M., Mazuch M., and Voigt S. The Upper Turonian of the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin (Czech Republic) exemplified by the Úpohlavy working quarry: integrated stratigraphy and palaeoceanography of a gateway to the Tethys. Cretaceous Research 25 (2004) 329-352
37. Wood C.J., and Ernst G. Turonian-Coniacian of Salzgitter-Salder. In: Mutterlose J., Bornemann A., Rauer S., Spaeth S., and Wood C.J. (Eds). Key localities of the Northwest European Cretaceous. Bochumer Geologische und Geotechnische Arbeiten 48 (1998) 94-102
38. Wood C.J., Ernst G., and Rasemann G. The Turonian-Coniacian stage boundary in Lower Saxony (Germany) and adjacent areas: the Salzgitter-Salder Quarry as a proposed international standard section. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Denmark 33 (1984) 225-238
39. Wood C., Walaszczyk I., Mortimore R., and Woods M. New observations on the inoceramid biostratigraphy of the higher part of the Upper Turonian and the Turonian - Coniacian boundary transition in Poland, Germany and the UK. Acta Geologica Polonica 54 (2004) 541-549
40. Wray D.S., and Wood C.J. Identification of a new bentonite in sediments of Mid-Turonian age from Lower Saxony, Germany and its correlation within NW Europe. In: Wagreich M. (Ed). Aspects of Cretaceous Stratigraphy and Palaeobiogeography. Proceedings of the 6th International Cretaceous Symposium, Vienna, 2000. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Schriftenreihe der Erdwissenschaftlichen Kommissionen 15 (2002) 47-58