Quilty (1973) recorded the Cenomanian-Turonian planktonic foraminifers from Eltanin core E54-7. Benthic forms were not recorded except as a percentage of the fauna. He later (Quilty, 1984) described the benthic genus Scheibnerova from core E54-7 and the once-adjacent Exmouth Plateau. Huber (1991) described the Maastrichtian planktonic foraminifers and foraminiferal biostratigraphy around the Cretaceous/Tertiary (K/T) boundary from ODP Site 738 of Leg 119, but no results are available from studies of benthic or older planktonic foraminifers. Quilty documented Late Cretaceous planktonic and benthic foraminifers recovered during the drilling of ODP Leg 120 (Quilty, 1992b, 1992c) and summarized studies of Cretaceous foraminifers that had been conducted in the Indian Ocean Basin to that time (Quilty, 1992a).