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Table T3. Biostratigraphic events, correlated with zones, epochs, and New Zealand stages, identified at Site 1119.
 
Event Group NZ
stage
Zone
(base)
Epoch Age
(Ma)
Sample Depth
(mbsf)

FO Globorotalia hirsuta

F







<0.45

1119B-1H-CC



FO Acme Emiliania huxleyi

N

Wq



latest Pleistocene

0.08

1119B-2H-CC

19

FO Emiliania huxleyi

N

Wq

NN21

middle Pleistocene

0.24

1119B-5H-CC

48.5

LO Pseudoemiliania lacunosa

N

Wc/Wq

NN20

middle Pleistocene

0.42

1119B-9H-CC

77

LO Plectofrondicularia advera

F





middle Pleistocene

~0.62

1119B-10H-CC


LO Plectofrondicularia pellucida

F

?Wn/Wc





~0.62

1119B-13H-CC


LO Acme Gephyrocapsa parallela (small)

N





middle Pleistocene

0.78

1119B-14H-CC

123

LO Bolivina affiliata

F

?Wn/Wc






1119B-15H-CC


LO Actinocyclus ingens f. planus

D

Wc





>0.62-0.65

1119C-16-8, 60 cm

144

FO Gephyrocapsa parallela

N





early Pleistocene

0.9

1119C-17H-CC

155

LO Dominant Gephyrocapsa (small)

N







0.9

1119C-18X-CC

164

LO Anomalinoides parvumbilicus

F

?Wn/Wc






1119C-18X-CC

164

LO Globorotalia puncticuloides

F

e Wc



early Pleistocene

~0.7

1119C-18X-CC

173

FO Globorotalia truncatulinoides

F







~0.8

1119C-18X-CC

173

LO Pterocanium trilobum

R

e Wc



early Pleistocene

>0.83

1119C-25-5,111

233

FO Dominant Gephyrocapsa (small)

N





early Pleistocene

1.14

1119C-26X-CC

240

LO Helicosphaera sellii

N

Wn



early Pleistocene

1.2

1119C-27X-CC

250

LO Gephyrocapsa oceanica (small)

N

Wn



early Pleistocene

~1.2

1119C-27X-CC

250

FO Gephyrocapsa (large)

N





early Pleistocene

~1.5

1119C-29X-CC


FO Gephyrocapsa (medium)

N





early Pleistocene

1.75

1119C-32X-CC

298

FO Lithelius nautiloides

R

Wn



late Pliocene

<1.93

1119C-31X-CC

298

FO Gephyrocapsa oceanica

N

Wn

NN19

late Pliocene

1.75-1.95

1119C-33X-CC

308

LO Haeuslerella plioceneenica

F

Wn



late Pliocene

>1.1

1119C-36X-CC

336

LO Eucyrtidium calvertense

R







>1.92

1119C-38-1, 110 cm

353

LO Karreriella cylindrica

F

Wn/Wc



late Pliocene

>1.1

1119C-38-1,64

353

FO Globorotalia crassula

F

Wm/Wn



late Pliocene

2.6

1119C-41X-CC

382

FO-LO Globorotalia crassaformis (dextral)

F

Wm/Wn



late Pliocene

2.1-3.0

1119C-41X-CC


LO Nitzschia weaveri

D





late Pliocene

~2.74

1119C-48X-CC

452

LO Discoaster asymmetricus

N

Wm/Wn



mid-Pliocene

~2.8

1119C-52X-CC

489

LCO Globorotalia puncticulata

F

Wo/Wp



Pliocene

3.7

1119C-52X-CC

Notes: F = foraminifer, N = calcareous nannofossil, D = diatom, R = radiolarian. Wq = Haweran, Wc = Castlecliffian, Wn = Nukumaruan, Wm = Mangapanian, Wo = Opoitian, Wp = Waipipian. See also Figure F7, in the "Explanatory Notes" chapter.

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