- journal_title：Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France
- Contributor：Josep Serra-Kiel ; Lukas Hottinger ; Esmeralda Caus ; Katica Drobne ; Carles Ferrandez ; Anil Kumar Jauhri ; Gyorgy Less ; Rajko Pavlovec ; Johannes Pignatti ; Josep Maria Samso ; Hans Schaub ; Ercument Sirel ; Amin Strougo ; Yvette Tambareau ; Josep Tosquella ; Elena Zakrevskaya
- Publisher：Societe Geologique de France
- Date：1998-
- Format：text/html
- Language：en
- journal_abbrev：Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France
- issn：0037-9409
- volume：169
- issue：2
- firstpage：281
- section：Articles
Abundance, diversity, and high evolutionary rates make larger foraminifera useful biostratigraphic tools for datation of sediments deposited in shallow marine platforms. Twenty shallow benthic zones (SBZ) are defined in the time span ranging from the base of Paleocene up to the Eocene-Oligocene boundary. A SBZ zone is characterized upon the stratigraphic distribution of several taxa, belonging mainly to alveolinids, nummulitids and orthophragminids. The correlation of shallow benthic zones with the Paleocene-Eocene Time Scale by Berggren et al. [1995] is proposed on the basis of magnetostratigraphic data from the Pyrenean Basin and by biostratigraphic correlation with the biozonations of calcareous nannoplankton and planktonic foraminifera in the eastern and central part of Tethys.