Tolypammina gregaria Wendt 1969-frutexites assemblage and ferromanganese crusts: A coupled nutrient-metal interplay in the Carnian sedimentary condensed record of hallstatt facies (Austria)

Abstract

Foraminifera are the most abundant sessile organisms found on ferromanganese crusts and nodules (Greenslate 1974; Wendt 1974; Dugolinsky et al. 1977; Riemann 1983; von Stackelberg 1984; Mullineaux 1987, 1988; Verlaan 1992; Resig and Glenn 1997; Toscano and Raspini 2005). In fact, actual ferromanganesecrusts and nodules share numerous similarities with their fossil counterparts. © 2011 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.