Table 2 Planktonic foraminifer datum events considered to reconstruct the chronology of Expedition 359 sediment cores.
From: The abrupt onset of the modern South Asian Monsoon winds
Datum | Age (Ma) | Zone/Subzone | |
|---|---|---|---|
LO | Globigerinoides ruber (pink) | 0,12 | PT1b |
LO | Globorotalia tosaensis | 0,61 | PT1b/PT1a |
LO | Globigerinoides fistulosus | 1,88 | PL6/PT1a |
LO | Globorotalia limbata | 2,39 | PL5 |
FO | Globigerinoides fistulosus | 3,33 | PL5 |
LO | Dentoglobigerina altispira | 3,47 | PL4/PL5 |
LO | Globorotalia margaritae | 3,85 | PL2/PL3 |
FO | Sphaeroidinella dehiscens sensu lato | 5,53 | PL1 |
FO | Globorotalia tumida | 5,57 | M14/PL1 |
LO | Globoquadrina dehiscens | 5,92 | M14 |
LO | Globorotalia lenguaensis | 6,14 | M13b/M14 |
FO | Neogloboquadrina acostaensis | 9,83 | M12/M13a |
LO | Paragloborotalia mayeri | 10,46 | M11/M12 |
LO | Fohsella fohsi | 11,79 | M9b/M10 |
FO | Fohsella fohsi | 13,41 | M9a/M8 |
FO | Orbulina suturalis | 15,1 | M5b/M6 |
LO | Paragloborotalia kugleri | 21,12 | M1b/M2 |
FO | Paragloborotalia kugleri | 22,96 | Oligocene/M1a |
