“…While diatom-bearing land sections are known from this time period (Harwood, 1988;Homann, 1991;Fenner, 1994;Hollis et al, 2017), in particular on the Russian platform (e.g. Jousé, 1949Jousé, , 1955Oreshkina and Aleksandrova, 2007;Aleksandrova et al, 2012;Radionova et al, 2003;Oreshkina and Radionova, 2014), then an epicontinental shallow sea, few diatom-bearing Paleocene sediments have been retrieved or studied from the deep sea (Mukhina, 1976;Gombos Jr., 1977Fenner, 1991Fenner, , 2015Fourtanier, 1991).…”