Ecology and Palaeoecology of Benthic Foraminifera

Murray, John W.

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“…Each taxon of foraminifera was quantified by establishing minimum number of individuals (MNI). Identification of foraminifera and their habitats was assisted with several reference texts (Albani, 1979;Militante-Matias, 1990;Murray, 1991;Palmieri, 1976;Sen Gupta, 1999) and online World Modern Foraminifera Database.…”

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Mid-Holocene Aboriginal occupation of offshore islands in northern Australia? A reassessment of Wurdukanhan, Mornington Island, southern Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia

Rosendahl

Ulm

Sloss

et al. 2015

Quaternary International

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Claims for mid-Holocene Aboriginal occupation at the shell matrix site of Wurdukanhan, Mornington Island, Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia, are reassessed through an analysis of the excavated assemblage coupled with new surveys and an extensive dating program. Memmott et al. (2006, pp. 38, 39) reported basal ages of c.5000-5500 years from Wurdukanhan as 'the oldest date yet obtained for any archaeological site on the coast of the southern Gulf of Carpentaria' and used these dates to argue for 'a relatively lengthy occupation since at least the mid-Holocene'. If substantiated, with the exception of western Torres Strait, these claims make Mornington Island the only offshore island used across northern Australia in the mid-Holocene where it is conventionally thought that Aboriginal people only (re)colonised islands after sea-level maximum was achieved after the mid-Holocene. Our analysis of Wurdukanhan demonstrate high shellfish taxa diversity, high rates of natural shell predation and high densities of foraminifera throughout the deposit demonstrating a natural origin for the assemblage. Results are considered in the context of other dated shell matrix sites in the area and a geomorphological model for landscape development of the Sandalwood River catchment.2

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Mid-Holocene Aboriginal occupation of offshore islands in northern Australia? A reassessment of Wurdukanhan, Mornington Island, southern Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia

Rosendahl

Ulm

Sloss

et al. 2015

Quaternary International

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“…Elphidium spp., Cibicides lobatulus, Cibicides refulgens and Asterigerinata planorbis are highly abundant from 15 to 17 m, at 19.95 m and from 23.2 to 24.2 m where they exceed 50% of total abundance. These species are reported to live in shallow shelf areas generally above 200 m (Murray, 1991;Seidenkratz et al, 2000), but they are also found in greater depths to which they are often transported passively. These species are extremely tolerant and adaptable to large variations in temperature, salinity and food supply (Linke & Lutze, 1993).…”

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“…According to Murray (1991) and Hayward (1986), diversity in benthic foraminifera in modern foraminiferal assemblages reaches a maximum in upper bathyal assemblages with values of Fisher-α index typically in the range of 20-30.…”

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Climatic vs tectonic control on the Early Late Miocene tectono-stratigraphic deposits of the Pre-Apulian Zone, Western Greece.

Drinia

2016

geosociety

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“…4b); to reflect this, we approximate its age as 5.7 Ma. The benthic component of the foraminiferan assemblage contains a large number of keeled representatives of the genus Elphidium which indicates a shallow marine environment, no more than 50 m deep with a relatively high salinity (35m-70m; Murray, 2006).…”

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Possible hominin footprints from the late Miocene (c. 5.7 Ma) of Crete?

2018

Fuß & Sprunggelenk

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A B S T R A C TWe describe late Miocene tetrapod footprints (tracks) from the Trachilos locality in western Crete (Greece), which show hominin-like characteristics. They occur in an emergent horizon within an otherwise marginal marine succession of Messinian age (latest Miocene), dated to approximately 5.7 Ma (million years), just prior to the Messinian Salinity Crisis. The tracks indicate that the trackmaker lacked claws, and was bipedal, plantigrade, pentadactyl and strongly entaxonic. The impression of the large and non-divergent first digit (hallux) has a narrow neck and bulbous asymmetrical distal pad. The lateral digit impressions become progressively smaller so that the digital region as a whole is strongly asymmetrical. A large, rounded ball impression is associated with the hallux. Morphometric analysis shows the footprints to have outlines that are distinct from modern non-hominin primates and resemble those of hominins. The interpretation of these footprints is potentially controversial. The print morphology suggests that the trackmaker was a basal member of the clade Hominini, but as Crete is some distance outside the known geographical range of pre-Pleistocene hominins we must also entertain the possibility that they represent a hitherto unknown late Miocene primate that convergently evolved human-like foot anatomy.

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Ecology and Palaeoecology of Benthic Foraminifera

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Mid-Holocene Aboriginal occupation of offshore islands in northern Australia? A reassessment of Wurdukanhan, Mornington Island, southern Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia

Mid-Holocene Aboriginal occupation of offshore islands in northern Australia? A reassessment of Wurdukanhan, Mornington Island, southern Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia

Climatic vs tectonic control on the Early Late Miocene tectono-stratigraphic deposits of the Pre-Apulian Zone, Western Greece.

Possible hominin footprints from the late Miocene (c. 5.7 Ma) of Crete?

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