Figure 2
From: Nannofossils in 2011 El Hierro eruptive products reinstate plume model for Canary Islands
Stratigraphic range chart for identified fossil taxa.
(a) Examples of sedimentary relicts in El Hierro xeno-pumice. (b) Temporal record of Calcareous nannofossils in xeno-pumice. Four samples contain Jurassic to Cretaceous species that define a common Albian/Cenomanian age (~100 Ma). Two samples contain two Pliocene to recent species that co-occur with one Paleogene species that was extinct at the Neogene-Quaternary boundary, dating the youngest sedimentary relicts to ~2.5 Ma (Piacenzian). One sample shows a mixed age assemblage (see text for details). (c–g) Representative smear slides of identified taxa. (c): Reticulofenestra spp., (d): Watznaueria ovata, (e): Retecapsa crenulata, (f): Watznaueria manivitiae, (g): Watznaueria fassacincta.
