Articles | Volume 37, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-37-191-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-37-191-2018
Research article
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17 Jan 2018
Research article |  | 17 Jan 2018

Improved wet splitter for micropalaeontological analysis, and assessment of uncertainty using data from splitters

Laurie M. Charrieau, Lene Bryngemark, Ingemar Hansson, and Helena L. Filipsson

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Splitting samples into smaller subsamples is often necessary in micropalaeontological studies. Indeed, the general high abundance of microfossils – which makes them excellent tools to reconstruct past environments – also results in very time-consuming faunal analyses. Here we present an improved and cost-effective wet splitter for micropalaeontological samples aimed to reduce picking time, while keeping information loss to a minimum.