Articles | Volume 37, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-37-87-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/jm-37-87-2018
Research article
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05 Jan 2018
Research article |  | 05 Jan 2018

Assessing the composition of fragmented agglutinated foraminiferal assemblages in ancient sediments: comparison of counting and area-based methods in Famennian samples (Late Devonian)

Catherine Girard, Anne-Béatrice Dufour, Anne-Lise Charruault, and Sabrina Renaud

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This study constitutes an attempt to analyze the variations in foraminiferal assemblages using the morphogroup approach in the Late Devonian. Our results show that both methods of estimating morphotype percentages, the traditional counting and the cumulated area methods, provide similar results, are highly correlated with each other, and provide similar relationships with paleoenvironmental proxies.