Illustration and Taxonomy of Late Neogene Deep Sea Agglutinated Benthic Foraminifera from the Exmouth Plateau in the Eastern Indian Ocean
Virendra Bahadur Singh, Ajai Kumar Rai, Uday Bhan
Abstract
Agglutinated benthic foraminifera were investigated from two ODP Sites 762B and 763A located on the Exmouth Plateau off north west Australia in the eastern Indian Ocean over an interval of Late Miocene to Late Pleistocene. Sixteen species of agglutinated benthic foraminifera are recorded from 152 samples from these sites. The foraminifera are generally well preserved. All the recorded taxa described and illustrated herein belong to ten genera and five families.