Table 2 Pearson correlation coefficients for some ecologically sensitive calcareous nannofossil taxa.

From: Integrated biostratigraphy of the Maastrichtian-Danian sequence in the southern Tethys with insights into paleoenvironmental implications

 

N. modestus

Cruciplacolithus spp.

C. danicus

W. barnesiae

A. cymbiformis

M. staurophora

C. ehrenbergii

M. murus

Z. sigmoides

B. constans

P. cretacea

Neochiastozygus modestus

1

          

Cruciplacolithus spp.

0.99

1

         

Chiasmolithus danicus

0.97

0.99

1

        

Watznaueria barnesiae

−0.65

−0.66

−0.66

1

       

Arkhangelskiella cymbiformis

−0.77

−0.78

−0.78

−0.13

1

      

Micula staurophora

−0.51

−0.52

−0.52

−0.21

0.86

1

     

Cribrosphaerella ehrenbergii

−0.23

−0.23

−0.23

−0.12

0.72

0.67

1

    

Micula murus

−0.29

−0.30

−0.30

0.67

−0.10

−0.06

−0.10

1

   

Zeugrhabdotus sigmoides

−0.17

−0.17

−0.16

0.16

0.48

0.34

0.58

0.13

1

  

Biscutum constans

−0.32

−0.31

−0.30

0.44

0.34

−0.25

0.29

0.19

0.64

1

 

Prediscosphaera cretacea

−0.62

−0.53

−0.50

−0.23

−0.35

−0.46

−0.62

−0.44

−0.56

0.29

1