APPENDIX

Calcareous nannofossils considered in this paper in alphabetical order of generic epithets.

Bicolumnus ovatus Wei and Wise, 1990.

Blackites spinosus (Delandre and Fert) Hay and Towe, 1962.

Braarudosphaera bigelowii (Gran and Braarud) Deflandre, 1947.

Calcidiscus leptoporus (Murray and Blackman, 1898) Loeblich and Tappan, 1978.

Calcidiscus macintyrei (Bukry and Bramlette, 1969) Loeblich and Tappan, 1978.

Chiasmolithus altus Bukry and Percival, 1971.

Chiasmolithus oamaruensis (Deflandre) Hay, Mohler, and Wade, 1966.

Clausicoccus fenestratus (Deflandre and Fert) Prins, 1979.

Coccolithus formosus (Kampter) Wise, 1973.

Coccolithus miopelagicus Bukry, 1971.

Coccolithus pelagicus (Wallich) Schiller, 1930.

Coronocyclus nitescens (Kamptner) Bramlette and Wilcoxon, 1967.

Cyclicargolithus abisectus (Müller) Wise, 1973.

Cyclicargolithus floridanus (Roth and Hay in Hay et al.) Bukry, 1971.

Discoaster binodosus Martini, 1958.

Discoaster deflandrei Bramlette and Riedel, 1954.

Discoaster tanii Bramlette and Riedel, 1954.

Discoaster variabilis Martini and Bramlette, 1963.

Emiliania huxleyi (Lohmann) Hay and Mohler in Hay et al., 1967.

Gephyrocapsa carribeanica Boudreaux and Hay, 1969.

Gephyrocapsa oceanica Kamptner, 1943.

Gephyrocapsa sp. cf. sinuosa Hay and Beaudry, 1973.

Helicosphaera bramlettei Muller, 1970.

Helicosphaera carteri (Wallich, 1877) Kamptner, 1954.

Helicosphaera euphratis Haq, 1966.

Helicosphaera granulata Bukry and Percival, 1971.

Helicosphaera intermedia Martini, 1965.

Helicosphaera obliqua Bramlette and Wilcoxon, 1967.

Helicosphaera perch-nielseniae Haq, 1971.

Helicosphaera recta Haq, 1966.

Isthmolithus recurvus Deflandre, 1954.

Markalius inversus (Deflandre) Bramlette and Martini, 1964.

Pontosphaera callosa (Martini) Varol, 1998.

Pontosphaera multipora (Kamptner) Roth, 1970.

Pontosphaera plana (Bramlette and Sullivan) Haq, 1971.

Pontosphaera punctosa (Bramlette and Sullivan) Perch-Nielsen, 1984.

Pontosphaera versa (Bramlette and Sullivan) Sherwood, 1974.

Pseudoemiliania lacunosa (Kamptner) Gartner, 1969.

Reticulofenestra bisecta (Hay, Mohler, and Wade) Roth, 1970.

Reticulofenestra daviesii (Haq) Haq, 1971.

Reticulofenestra dictyoda (Deflandre and Fert) Stradner and Edwards, 1968.

Reticulofenestra hillae Bukry and Percival, 1971.

Reticulofenestra perplexa (Burns) Wise, 1983.

Reticulofenestra sp. cf. R. reticulata (Gartner and Smith) Roth and Thierstein, 1972.

Reticulofenestra samodurovii (Hay, Mohler, and Wade) Roth, 1970.

Reticulofenestra scrippsae (Bukry and Percival) Roth, 1973.

Rhabdosphaera tenuis Bramlette and Sullivan, 1961.

Sphenolithus dissimilis Bukry and Percival, 1971.

Sphenolithus moriformis (Brönnimann and Stradner) Bramlete and Wilcoxon, 1967.

Thoracosphaera saxea Stradner, 1961.

Triquetrorhabdulus carinatus Martini, 1965.

Zygrhablithus bijugatus (Deflandre) Deflandre, 1959.