Aspects of MicropalaeontologyTom Barnard, Frederick Thomas Banner, Alan Richard Lord This volume is a collection of papers presented to Professor Tom Barnard by former students, colleagues and friends to mark thirty-two years of teaching and research in micropalaeontology at University College London. This period represents the major part of Tom Barnard's career with microfossils, which actually began rather earlier, but in 1949 his first postgraduate students were registered. Since then some 150 students have worked for higher degrees studying foraminifera, ostracods, calcareous nannofossils, dino of Research flagellates and palynomorphs, in company with a series Assistants and Visiting Scientists. The nature of micropalaeontology at 'UC' under Tom Barnard has always been unashamedly biostratigraphical. As a result many students have entered and continue to enter the petroleum industry, not least of all because their mentor has always had a pragmatic view of academic research and its direction. Despite this emphasis, with a particular attention to Mesozoic foraminifera, a major investigation of Recent Caribbean foraminiferal faunas has been carried out and most recently MSc classes have worked with material from the continental shelf of southern Africa. Work with Mesozoic ostracods was initiated in 1956 and during the past decade a growing number of students have concentrated on calcareous nannofossils. A book sum marising the results of biostratigraphical work with nannofossils is at present in the press (Lord, A. R. (ed. ) A stratigraphical index of calcareous nanno fossils. Chichester: Ellis Horwood). |
Contents
The subgeneric classification of Arenobulimina | 42 |
Middle Eocene assilinid foraminifera from Iran | 81 |
Ecology and distribution of selected foraminiferal | 111 |
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A-form agglutinated aperture Aptian areal Arenobulimina assemblages Assilina axial section Banner and Blow Barnard and Banner based on holotype benthonic Bermúdez biostratigraphy biserial BMNH Bolli Brönnimann Bulimina calcareous Carter and Hart Cenomanian chalk chambers per whorl chapmani Clay coiling Cretaceous Cushman d'Orbigny dorsal early elongate Eocene fauna flint meal Foramin foraminifera forms genera genus Geol Geological Globigerina Globigerinacea Globigerinidae Globorotalia growth Hagenowella Hagenowina Hofker holotype hypotypes Jurassic Late Albian lectotype Loeblich and Tappan Longoria Maastrichtian Maestrichtian marine marl MaxLOC metacopine Micropaleontology Middle Eocene MinLOC Miocene morphological muricae North Minch Channel northwestern Germany Ogmoconcha ostracods Palaeocene Paleont palynofacies paratype Pessagno planispiral planktonic planktonic foraminifera Plate Pliensbachian proloculus rate of chamber Reuss Saito scale bar-line sediment septate Sigal species specimens Stratigraphical Subbotina surface sutures Toarcian Tom Barnard topotypes figured trochospiral Turonian type-species umbilicus uniserial Upper USNM vide Voloshina Weald Wealden zone