Glaukolithus bicrescenticus

(Stover, 1966) Bergen, 1998 Oct 25, 2026

Set number: 4912

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Glaukolithus bicrescenticus, Late Campanian, DSDP Leg 36, Site 327A, The Maurice Ewing Bank, Falkland Plateau

Set number: 4908

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Glaukolithus bicrescenticus, Early Coniacian, Culver Cliff, Isle of Wight, South England

Set number: 4907

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Glaukolithus bicrescenticus, Early Maastrichtian, Mauritania, West Africa

Set number: 4906

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Glaukolithus bicrescenticus, Middle Campanian, Arabian Peninsula (The specific location cannot be disclosed)

Set number: 4911

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Glaukolithus bicrescenticus, Early Cenomanian, Vergons, SE France

Set number: 4909

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Glaukolithus bicrescenticus, Early Cenomanian, Folkestone, South East England

Set number: 4905

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Glaukolithus bicrescenticus, Middle Campanian, Arabian Peninsula (The specific location cannot be disclosed)

Set number: 4904

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Glaukolithus bicrescenticus, Late Campanian, The specific location cannot be disclosed.

Set number: 4903

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Glaukolithus bicrescenticus, Late Santonian, Mauritania, West Africa

Set number: 4902

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Glaukolithus bicrescenticus, Late Santonian, Arabian Peninsula (The specific location cannot be disclosed)

Set number: 4901

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Glaukolithus bicrescenticus, Late Albian, Mississippi Canyon, Gulf of Mexico

Set number: 4910

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Glaukolithus bicrescenticus, Early Maastrichtian, DSDP Leg 36, Site 327A, The Maurice Ewing Bank, Falkland Plateau

Final Epithet

Glaukolithus bicrescenticus (Stover, 1966) Bergen, 1998

Basionym

Discolithus bicrescenticus Stover, 1966

Synonyms

Zygodiscus compactus Bukry, 1969

Zygolithites parallelus Black, 1972a

Zygodiscus bicrescenticus (Stover, 1966) Wind & Wise in Wise & Wind, 1977

Glaukolithus compactus (Bukry, 1969) Perch-Nielsen, 1984

Zygolithites compactus (Bukry, 1969) Varol & Girgis, 1994

Zeugrhabdotus bicrescenticus (Stover, 1966) Burnett in Gale et al., 1996

References

Bergen, J. A. 1998. Calcareous nannofossils from the lower Aptian historical stratotype at Cassis-La Bedoule (SE France). Géologie Méditerranéene. 25(3-4): 227-255.

Black, M. 1972a. British Lower Cretaceous Coccoliths. I-Gault Clay (Part 1). Palaeontographical Society Monograph. 126: 1-48.

Bukry, D. 1969. Upper Cretaceous coccoliths from Texas and Europe. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, Articles 51 (Protista 2): 1-79.

Gale, A. S., Kennedy, W. J., Burnett, J. A., Caron, M. & Kidd, B. E. 1996. The Late Albian to Early Cenomanian succession at Mont Risou, near Rosans (Drôme, SE France): an integrated study (ammonites, inoceramids, planktonic foraminifera, nannofossils, oxygen and carbon isotopes). Cretac. Res., 17: 515–606.

Perch-Nielsen, K. 1984. Validation of new combinations. INA Newsletter. 6(1): 42-46.

Stover, L. E. 1966. Cretaceous coccoliths and associated nannofossils from France and the Netherlands. Micropaleontology 12(2): 133-167.

Varol, O. & Girgis, M. 1994. New taxa and taxonomy of some Jurassic to Cretaceous calcareous nannofossils. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen. 192: 221-253.

Wise, S. W. & Wind, F. H. 1977. Mesozoic and Cenozoic calcareous nannofossils recovered by DSDP Leg 36 drilling on the Falkland Plateau, south-west Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. Initial Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project 36: 269-491

Taxonomy

Glaukolithus

Uncategorised

Biostratigraphy

Stratigraphic Range

Late Hauterivian - Early Maastrichtian

Age (Ma)

129.66 - 69.91

Holotype

Discolithus bicrescenticus Stover, 1966

Coniacian

Le Bois de Molle, east bank of Yonne River at Rosoy, France