Author(s)

Clémentine Peggy Anne-Marie Colpaert^1,2, Boris Leonidovich Nikitenko^1,3

¹Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia.
²State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Center for Excellence in Life and Environment, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China.
³Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia.

Foraminifer is a very useful microorganism to perform biostratigraphical zonation of the Upper Jurassic. Foraminiferal biozones are calibrated by the ammonite standard zones and can be used for intra- and interregional correlations. Furthermore, the fossil record of foraminiferal faunas is well known among basins of the Northern Eurasia and is also used for accurate palaeoenvironmental, palaeobiogeographical, or biofacial reconstructions. It allows identifying a complex set of biotic and abiotic events which may be used to propose a more general palaeoecoloecological and palaeoceanographical reconstruction of the Subboreal, Boreal, and Arctic seas. Then, the late Kimmeridgian Northern Eurasian seas formed a network of well-connected palaeobasins during the sea-level rise and resulted in rather similar palaeoenvironmental conditions.

Late Jurassic, Foraminifers, Palaeoceanography, Northern Eurasia

Colpaert, C. and Nikitenko, B. (2019) Kimmeridgian Foraminiferal Faunas of Northern Eurasia: Significance for Interregional Correlations and Palaeobiogeography. Open Journal of Geology, 9, 573-576. doi: 10.4236/ojg.2019.910045.