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Campanian Planktonic Foraminifera and Radiolaria from the Kannaviou Formation, Southwest Cyprus

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Several sections of the upper part of the Kannaviou Formation in southwest Cyprus are described. All sections are characterized by planktonic microfossil groups that include foraminifera and radiolarians. The presence of the key species Hendersonites carinatus makes it possible to identify the middle–upper Campanian stratigraphic interval in deep-marine facies. Identification of Contusotruncana plummerae and H. carinatus allows us to recognize the C. plummerae–H. carinatus Beds (middle–upper Campanian). Radiolaria from the Kannaviou, Vretsia and Armou sections (upper part of the Kannaviou Formation) are represented by characteristic assemblages of the lower part (upper part middle–upper Campanian) of the Amphipyndax tylotus Zone (upper part middle/upper Campanian–Maastrichtian). A more accurate identification of the lower boundary of the A. tylotus Zone is based on the integrated planktonic foraminiferal and radiolarian biostratigraphy.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors are grateful for B.T. Huber (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution), V.S. Vishnevskaya (Geological institute RAS) and E.A. Yazykova (Uniwersytet Opolski), and for numerous valuable suggestions that helped to improve this article. We highly appreciate the help of A.B. Herman (Geological institute RAS) who corrected the language of the manuscript. The authors express thanks to N.V. Gor’kova (Geological institute RAS) and to R. Rakitov (Paleontological institute RAS) for the SEM photography.

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This study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, grant no. 19-55-25001-Cyprus_a, and the Research and Innovation Foundation of Cyprus (RIF) under the grant Bilateral/Russia (RFBR)/1118/0025, and the Russian Government Program FMMG-2021-0003 (Geological Institute, RAS).

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    E. Tsiolakis, V. Symeou & N. Papadimitriou

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Proshina, P., Bragina, L., Bragin, N. et al. Campanian Planktonic Foraminifera and Radiolaria from the Kannaviou Formation, Southwest Cyprus. Stratigr. Geol. Correl. 31, 481–501 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0869593823050064

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