Plankton Stratigraphy: Volume 2, Radiolaria, Diatoms, Silicoflagellates, Dinoflagellates and Ichthyoliths

Volume 2 describes siliceous and other non-calcareous microfossils, covering radiolaria, diatoms, silicoflagellates, dinoflagellates and ichthyoliths.

Hans M. Bolli (Edited by), John B. Saunders (Edited by), Katharina Perch-Nielsen (Edited by)

9780521367202, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 25 May 1989

456 pages
27.9 x 21 x 2.3 cm, 1.02 kg

This comprehensive synthesis of our knowledge of the biostratigraphy of marine plankton is the work of an international team of eighteen authors. It covers all the major fossil groups that can be used to date sediments and rocks in the time interval Late Mesozoic to Holocene. Altogether more than 3200 taxa are considered, almost all of which are illustrated and depicted on range charts, making the book a valuable work of reference in the earth sciences. For ease of reference by specialists interested in either calcareous or non-calcareous microfossils, the original work is now divided into two independent volumes. Volume 2 describes siliceous and other non-calcareous microfossils, covering radiolaria, diatoms, silicoflagellates, dinoflagellates and ichthyoliths.

1. Introduction
2. Comparison of zonal schemes for different fossil groups
13. Cretaceous radiolaria Annika Sanfilippo and William R. Riedel
14. Cenozoic radiolaria Annika Sanfilippo, M. Jean Westberg-Smith and William R. Riedel
15. Late Cretaceous to Oligocene planktic diatoms Juliane Fenner
16. Miocene to Holocene planktic diatoms John A. Barron
17. Silicoflagellates Katharina Perch-Nielsen
18. Mesozoic and Cenozoic dinoflagellates Graham L. Williams and Jonathan P. Bujak
19. Cenozoic and Late Cretaceous ichthyoliths Patricia S. Doyle and William R. Riedel

Subject Areas: Stratigraphy [RBGH]