As for most geological period boundaries, the Triassic–Jurassic (T–J) transition, ∼200 million years ago, was a critical juncture in Earth history during which profound biotic and environmental changes took place. Early comparisons with the end-Cretaceous extinction and the involvement of extraterrestrial impact have now largely, although not entirely, given way to more Earthbound explanations ...

books where morphological and biometrical data are not available [16,17]. These works in progress will certainly improve the knowledge about the San Teodoro Faunal Complex (FC) but cannot be considered in this form. Furthermore, Marra [1] reported the determinations of species from S. Teodoro published by the Bonfiglio’s research team on referred journals from 2000 to 2012 [5,18–22], and it app...

Chronostratigraphic data available for the preliminary age model for the upper 700 m for the AND-1B drill core include diatom biostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy, 40Ar/39Ar ages on volcanic material, 87Sr/86Sr ages on calcareous fossil material, and surfaces of erosion identifi ed from physical appearance and facies relationships recognised in the AND-1B drill core. The available age data allo...

The distribution of benthic foraminifera across the Paleocene/Eocene (P/E) Boundary of the Contessa Road section allows us to compare the response of both calcareous hyaline and Deep Water Agglutinated Foraminiferal (DWAF) assemblages to the terminal Paleocene Benthic Extinction Event (BEE). The two groups are contemporaneously affected by the terminal Paleocene events. Quantitative analysis re...

Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Leg 199, “The Paleogene Equatorial Transect” (Sites 1215 through 1222), was designed to study the evolution of the equatorial Pacific current and wind system as the Earth went from maximum Cenozoic warmth to initial Antarctic glaciations. The drilling program was primarily devoted to a transect along 56to 57-Ma crust, old enough to capture the Paleocene/ Eocene boun...