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Geological Society, London, Special Publications; 1993; v. 70; p. 155-167;
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1993.070.01.11
© 1993 Geological Society of London

Quarternary and Tertiary

Ostracoda as biostratigraphical indices in Cenozoic deep-sea sequences

R. C. Whatley

Micropalaeontology and Palynology Research Group, Institute of Earth Studies, University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Dyfed, UK

Some of the disadvantages inherent in the use of benthonic deep-sea Ostracoda such as their lack of pelagic larval stages and the extent to which relative paucity in deeper abyssal environments is prejudicial to diversity, are balanced against the advantages of being pandemic in distribution and independent of latitudinal and surface current temperature controls. The application of Ostracoda to the biostratigraphy of the deep water Cenozoic of the North Atlantic is outlined in some detail and it is shown that podocopid Ostracoda can be used to determine the various nannofossil zones.