Coletti, Giovanni Stainbank, Stephanie Fabbrini, Alessio Spezzaferri, Silvia Foubert, Anneleen Kroon, Dick Betzler, Christian 2018-10-01 Large benthic foraminifera are important components of tropical shallow water carbonates. Their structure, developed to host algal symbionts, can be extremely elaborate and presents stratigraphically-significant evolutionary patterns. Therefore their distribution is important in biostratigraphy, especially in the Indo-Pacific area. To provide a reliable age model for two intervals of IODP Hole U1468A from the Maldives Inner-Sea, large benthic foraminifera have been studied with computed tomography. This technique provided 3D models ideal for biometric-based identifications, allowing the upper interval to be placed in the late middle-Miocene and the lower interval in the late Oligocene. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/307344 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/307344/files/fou_blb.pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/307344/files/fou_blb_sm.pdf eng info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1007/s00015-018-0306-7 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess License undefined Swiss Journal of Geosciences. - 2018, vol. 111, no. 3, p. 523–536 info:eu-repo/classification/udc/55 Biostratigraphy of large benthic foraminifera from Hole U1468A (Maldives): a CT-scan taxonomic approach http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501