Category Archives: working group

Russia

Regional Committee on Russian Paleogene Stratigraphy Chairman: Mikhail A. Akhmetiev Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119017, Russia akhmetiev@ginras.ru Secretary: Galina N. Aleksandrova Geological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119017, Russia dinoflag@mail.ru

Deep-water Benthic Foraminifera

  Chairwoman: Laia Alegret (University of Zaragoza, Spain) laia@unizar.es Secretary: Gabriela de Jesús Arreguín-Rodríguez (Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexico) arreguing@uabc.edu.mx Former Chairman: Michael A. Kaminski (King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia) kaminski@kfupm.edu.sa The scope of the Working group is to contribute to the main objectives of ISPS by studying deep-water benthic […]

Larger Foraminifera

Paleogene Larger Foraminifera Working Group Chairman: Cesare Papazzoni Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche, University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy cesareandrea.papazzoni@unimore.it   Secretary: Carles Ferrandez Cañadell Dept. Estratigrafia, Paleontologia I Geociències Marines, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain carlesferrandez@ub.edu website: http://www.ub.edu/depgm/es/directori/personal-academic/41-carles-ferrandez-canadell

Planktonic Foraminifera

The Paleogene Planktonic Foraminifera Working Group has been active over 25 years and dealing with comprehensive revisions to the taxonomy and biostratigraphy of Paleogene taxa.  Atlases on Paleocene (Olsson and others, 1999), Eocene (Pearson and others, 2006) and Oligocene planktonic foraminifera (Wade et al. 2018) have  been published.  They aim to establish a clear and […]

Lutetian stratotype

Description: The GSSP for the base of the Lutetian Stage (early/middle Eocene boundary) is defined at 167.85 metres in the Gorrondatxe sea-cliff section (NW of Bilbao city, Basque Country, northern Spain; 43º22’46.47″ N, 3º00’51.61″ W). This dark marly level coincides with the lowest occurrence of the calcareous nannofossil Blackites inflatus (CP12a/b boundary), is in the […]