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Table 2. Planktonic foraminifer datums used to construct age/depth plot.

	Event	Zone (base)	Datum age (Ma)*	Depth (mbsf)	Tuned age (Ma)^§
1.	LO Globigerinoides obliquus		1.3	44.05	1.30
2.	FO Truncorotalia truncatulinoides	N22	2.0	68.77	1.92
3.	LO Menardella miocenica		2.3	78.27	2.38
4.	LO Menardella multicamerata		3.0	97.27	3.10
5.	LO Dentoglobigerna altispira		3.0	97.27	3.11
6.	FO Menardella miocenica	N21/N20	3.6	101.05	3.77
7.	LO Hirsutella margaritae		3.6	110.55	3.85
8.	FO Truncorotalia crassaformis		4.7	139.07	4.31
9.	FO Sphaeroidinella dehiscens	N19	5.6	160.55	5.54
10.	FO Globorotalia plesiotumida	N18/N17	8.2	237.54	8.58
11.	FO Neogloboquadrina acostaensis	N16	10.0	265.56	9.82
12.	LO Paragloborotalia mayeri	N15	10.3	269.11	10.49
13.	FO Globoturborotalita nepenthes	N14	11.4	295.15	11.19
14.	LO Fohsella fohsi	N13	11.8	298.61	11.68
15.	FO Fohsella fohsi	N12	13.5	307.25	13.42
16.	FO Fohsella praefohsi	N11	14.0	333.32	-
17.	FO Fohsella peripheroacuta	N10	14.7	345.75	-
18.	FO Praeorbulina sicana	N9/N8	16.4	416.25	-
19.	LO Catapsydrax dissimilis	N7	17.3	454.14	-

Notes: *Ages are from Curry, Shackleton, Richter, et al. (1995). ^§Ages are from Site 925, a section tuned by Bickert et al. (1997), Tiedemann and Franz (1997), and Shackleton and Crowhurst (1997).