Table T4. Zone B species shared with early Miocene assemblage(s)/zone(s) from different areas.
Species
Reference
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Cleistosphaeridium ancyreum A, B + +              
Cribroperidinium tenuitabulatum A, B + +   + +        
Hystrichosphaeropsis obscura B + + + + + +   +  
Melitasphaeridium choanophorum B + + +         +  
Polysphaeridium zoharyi A, B +                
Reticulatosphaera actinocoronata A, B   +              
Tuberculodinium vancampoae B + +   + +        
Cleistosphaeridium placacanthum A, B     +       + +  
Cerebrocysta satchelliae B             +    
Impagidinium aculeatum B     + +       +  
Lingulodinium machaerophorum A, B         + +      
Membranilarnacia ?picena B                 +
Operculodinium centrocarpum A, B           +      
Pentadinium laticinctum A, B       +       +  
Tectatodinium pellitum B         +     +  

Notes: 1 = Site 1148, the present paper. 2 = South China Sea (Mao and Lei, 1996). 3 = Baffin Bay (Head et al., 1989). 4 = Rockall Plateau (Costa and Downie, 1979) and Goban Spur (Brown and Downie, 1985). 5 = Norwegian Sea (Manum et al., 1989). 6 = Gulf of Mexico (Lenoir and Hart, 1986). 7 = western and northern Pacific (Bujak, 1984; Bujak and Matsuoka, 1986). 8 = Mid-Atlantic (de Verteuil and Norris, 1996). 9 = northwest Italy (Powell, 1986b). 10 = Central Italy (Biffi and Manum, 1988).