Table 6. Miocene biohorizons from Leg 167 before earliest paleomagnetic stratigraphy.
 
Event CK95
(Ma)
Depth (mcd)
Site 1010
Site 1011
Site 1021
LCO R. californica 6.65 NR 185.78 223.66
FO A. primus 7.4 83.67 213.76 210.30
LCO T. schraderi 7.6 91.23 223.44 230.26
LO M. convallis 7.7 91.03 225.26 NR
FO D. quinqueramus/berggrenii 8.2 88.17 241.12 217.03
FCO T. schraderi 8.4 Diachronous 249.24 253.29
LCO D. simonsenii 8.6 105.13 255.54 253.29
LO D. dimorpha 9.16 112.07 274.80 262.08
FO T. schraderi 9.5 Diachronous 278.29
LO D. hamatus 9.5 114.23 NR
FO Minylitha convallis 9.8 114.23 274.04
FO D. dimorpha 9.9 115.71 278.29
FO D. hamatus 10.4 132.66 NR
FO D. bellus 10.5 132.66 281.44?
FO C. coalitus 10.8 132.66 291.27?
LCO D. praedimorpha 11.5 140.40 304.61
LO C. floridanus 11.6 156.11 NR
FO D. kugleri 12.0 152.25 NR
LO C. premacintyrei 12.1 170.04 NR
FO D. praedimorpha 12.9 172.37 <325.61
FCO D. simonsenii 13.1 192.81
LO S. heteromorphus 13.6 203.65

Notes: CK95 = age following Cande and Kent (1995). NR = not recorded. Stratigraphic depths reported here represent a midpoint between constraining samples.