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A selection of relevant papers on the Paleogene are listed below. Please send us additional papers on pdf published in journals catalogued in the SCI, which we will be glad to add to this list.

Alegret L. & Thomas E. (2004). Benthic foraminifera and environmental turnover across the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary at Blake Nose (ODP Hole 1049C, Northwestern Atlantic). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 208, 59-83. [Download PDF]

Alegret L. & Thomas E. (2005). Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary bathyal paleo-envirnments in the central North Pacific (DSDP Site 465), The Northwestern Atlantic (ODP Site 1049), the Gulf of Mexico and the Tethys: The benthic foraminiferal record. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 224, 53-82. [Download PDF]

Alegret L., Arenillas I., Arz J.A., Díaz C., Grajales M., Meléndez A., Molina E., Rojas R. & Soria A.R. (2005). Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary deposits at Loma Capiro, central Cuba: Evidence for the Chicxulub impact. Geology. 33(9), 721-724. [Download PDF]

Alegret L., Arenillas I., Arz J.A., Liesa C., Meléndez A., Molina E., Soria A.R. & Thomas E. (2002). The Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary impact event: sedimentology and micropaleontology at El Mulato section, NE Mexico. Terra Nova, 14(5), 330-336. [Download PDF]

Alegret L., Cruz L.E., Fenero R., Molina E., Ortiz S. & Thomas E. (2008). Effects of the Oligocene climatic events on the foraminiferal record from Fuente Caldera section (Spain, western Tethys). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 269, 94-102. [Download PDF]

Alegret L., Kaminski M.A. & Molina E. (2004). Paleoenvironmental recovery after the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary crisis: evidence from the marine Bidart section (SW France). Palaios. 19, 574-586. [Download PDF]

Alegret L., Molina E. & Thomas E. (2001). Benthic foraminifera at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary around the Gulf of Mexico. Geology. 29(10), 891-894. [Download PDF]

Alegret L., Molina E. & Thomas E. (2003). Benthic foraminiferal turnover across the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary at Agost (southeasterns Spain): paleoenvironmental inferences. Marine Micropaleontology. 48, 251-279. [Download PDF]

Alegret L., Ortiz S., Arenillas I. & Molina E. (2005). Paleoenvironmental turnover across the Paleocene/Eocene Boundary at the Stratotype section in Dababiya (Egypt) based on benthic foraminifera. Terra Nova. 17, 526-536. [Download PDF]

Arenillas I., Arz J.A., Molina E. & Dupuis Ch. (2000). An independent test of planktic foraminiferal turnover across the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/P) boundary at El Kef, Tunisia: catastrophic mass extincion and possible survivorship. Micropaleontology. 46(1), 31-49. [Download PDF]

Arenillas I., Arz J.A., Molina E. & Dupuis Ch. (2000). The Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary at Aïn Settara, Tunisia: sudden catastrophic mass extinction in planktic foraminifera. Journal of Foraminiferal Research. 30(2). 202-218. [Download PDF]

Arenillas I, Arz J.A., Grajales M., Murillo G., Alvarez W., Camargo A., Molina E. & Rosales C. (2006). Chicxulub impact event is Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary in age: New micropaleontological evidence. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 249, 241-257. [Download PDF]

Arenillas I., Arz J.A. & Molina E. (2004). A new high-resolution planktic foraminiferal zonation and subzonation for the lower Danian. Lethaia. 37, 79-95. [Download PDF]

Arenillas I., Molina E. & Schmitz B. (1999). Planktic foraminiferal and ¶13C isotopic changes across the Paleocene/Eocene boundary at Possagno (Italy). International Journal of Earth Sciences (Geologische Rundschau). 88. 352-364. [Download PDF]

Arenillas I. , Molina , E. Ortiz S. & Schmitz B. (2008). Foraminiferal and ∂13C isotopic event-stratigraphy across the Danian-Selandian transition at Zumaya (northern Spain): chronostratigraphic implications. Terra Nova. 20, 38-44. [Download PDF]

Arz J.A., Arenillas I., Soria A.R., Alegret L., Grajales J., Liesa C., Meléndez A. Molina E. & Rosales M.C. (2001). Micropaleontology and Sedimentology of the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary at La Ceiba (Mexico): impact-generated sediment gravity flows. Journal of South American Earth Sciences. 14(5), 505-519. [Download PDF]

Arz J.A., Alegret L. & Arenillas I. (2004). Foraminiferal biostratigraphy and paleonvironmental reconstruction at Yaxcopoi-1 drill hole (Chicxulub crater, Yucatan Peninsula). Meteoritics & Planetary Science. 39(7), 1099-1111 [Download PDF]

Bernaola, G., Orue-Etxebarria, X., Payros, A., Dinarès-Turell, J., Tosquella, J., Apellaniz, E. & Caballero, F. (2006). Biomagnetostratigraphic analysis of the Gorrondatxe section (Basque Country, Western Pyrenees): Its significance for the definition of the Ypresian/Lutetian boundary stratotype. N. Jb. Geol. Paläonto. Abh. 241(1), 67-109. [Download PDF]

Canudo J.I, Keller G., Molina E. & Ortiz N. (1995). Planktic foraminiferal turnover and ∂13C isotopes across the Paleocene-Eocene transition at Caravaca and Zumaya, Spain. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 114. 75-100. [Download PDF]

Larrasoaña J., Gonzalvo C., Molina E., Monechi S., Ortiz S., Tori F. & Tosquella J. (2008). Integrated magnetostratigraphy of the Early/Middle Eocene transition at Agost (Spain): implications for defining the Ypresian/Lutetian boundary stratotype. Lethaia. 41, 395-415. [Download PDF]

Lu G., Keller G., Adatte T., Ortiz N. & Molina E. (1996). Long-term (105) or short-term (103) ¶13C excursion near the Paleocene-Eocene transition: evidence from the Tethys. Terra Nova. 8. 347-355.  [Download PDF]

Molina E., Gonzalvo C. & Keller G. (1993). The Eocene-Oligocene planktic foraminiferal transition: extinction, impact and hiatuses. Geological Magazine, 130(4). 483-499. [Download PDF]

Molina E., Canudo J.I., Martínez F. & Ortiz N. (1994). Integrated Stratigraphy across the Paleocene/Eocene boundary at Caravaca, Southern Spain. Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae, 87(1). 47-61. [Download PDF]

Molina E., Arenillas I. & Arz J.A. (1998). Mass extinction in planktic foraminifera at the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary in subtropical and temperate latitudes. Bulletin de la Société géologique de France. 169(3). 351-363. [Download PDF]

Molina E., Arenillas I. & Pardo E. (1999). High resolution planktic foraminiferal biostratigraphy and correlation across the Paleocene/Eocene boundary in the Tethys. Bulletin de la Société géologique de France. 174(4). 521-530. [Download PDF]

Molina E., Alegret L., Arenillas I., Arz JA., Gallala N., Hardenbol J., Von Salis K., Steurbaut E., Vandenbeghe N. & Zaghbib-Turki D. (2006). The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the base of the Danian Stage (Paleocene, Paleogene, "Tertiary", Cenozoic) at El Kef, Tunisia: original definition and revision. Episodes. 29(4), 263-278. [Download PDF]

Molina E., Alegret L., Arenillas I., Arz J.A., Gallala N., Grajales-Nishimura M., Murillo-Muñetón, G. & Zaghbib-Turki D. (2009). The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point for the base of the Danian Stage (Paleocene, Paleogene, “Tertiary”, Cenozoic): auxiliary sections and correlation. Episodes. 32 (2), 84-95. [Download PDF]

Molina E., Gonzalvo C., Mancheño M.A., Ortiz S., Schmitz B., Thomas E. & von Salis K. (2006). Integrated stratigraphy and chronostratigraphy across the Ypresian-Lutetian transition in the Fortuna Section (Betic Cordillera, Spain). Newsletters on Stratigraphy. 42(1), 23-41, 1-19. [Download PDF]

Molina E., Gonzalvo C., Ortiz S. & Cruz L.E. (2006). Foraminiferal turnover across the Eocene-Oligocene transition at Fuente Caldera, southern Spain: no cause-effect relationship between meteorite impacts and extinctions. Marine Micropaleontology. 58(4), 270-286. [Download PDF]

Molina E., Alegret L., Apellaniz E., Bernaola G., Caballero F., Dinarès-Turell J., Hardenbol J., Heilman-Clausen C., Larrasoaña J.C., Luterbacher H., Monechi S., Ortiz S. Orue-Etxebarria X., Payros A., Pujalte V. Rodríguez-Tovar F.J., Tori F., Tosquella J. & Uchman A. (2011). The Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Lutetian Stage at the Gorrondatxe section, Spain. Episodes. 34(2), 86-108. [Download PDF]

Ortiz S., Gonzalvo C., Molina E., Rodríguez-Tovar F.J., Uchman A.,Vandemberghe N., Zeelmaekers E. (2008). Palaeoenvironmental turnover across the Ypresian-Lutetian transition at the Agost section, southeastern Spain: in search of a marker event to define the Stratotype for the base of the Lutetian Stage. Marine Micropaleontology. 69, 297-313. [Download PDF]

Pardo A., Keller G., Molina E. & Canudo J.I. (1997). Planktic foraminifera turnover across the Paleocene/Eocene boundary at the DSDP site 401 (Bay of Biscay, North Atlantic). Marine Micropaleontology. 29. 129-158. [Download PDF]

Payros, A., Orue-Etxebarria, X. & Pujalte, V. (2006). Covaring sedimentary and biotic fluctuations in the Lower-Middle Eocene Pyrenean deep-sea deposits: palaeoenvironmental implications. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 234, 258-276. [Download PDF]

Payros, A., Bernaola, G., Orue-Etxebarria, X., Dinarés-Turell, J., Tosquella, J. & Apellaniz, E. (2007). Reassessment of the Early-Middle Eocene biomagnetochronology based on evidence from the Gorrondatxe section (Basque Country, western Pyrenees). Lethaia. 40, 183-195. [Download PDF]

Peryt D., Alegret L. & Molina E. (2002). The Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/P) boundary at Aïn Settara, Tunisia: restructuring of benthic foraminiferal assemblages. Terra Nova, 14, 101-107. [Download PDF]

Robin E. & Molina E. (2006). Chronostratigraphy, composition and source of Ni-rich spinel in the late Eocene Fuente Caldera section (Spain): one impact or more? Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 41(8), 1231-1248. [Download PDF]

Schmitz B., Asaro F., Molina E. Monechi S. von Salis K. & Speijer R.P. (1997). High-resolution iridium, ∂13C, ∂18O, foraminifera and nannofossil profiles across the latest Paleocene benthic extinction event at Zumaya, Spain. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 133 (1-2). 49-68. [Download PDF]

Schmitz B., Molina E. & von Salis K. (1998). The Zumaya section in Spain: a possible global stratotype section for the Selandian and Thanetian stages. Newsletters on Stratigraphy. 36(1). 35-42.  [Download PDF]

Soria A.R., Liesa C., Mata M.P., Arz J.A., Alegret L., Arenillas I. & Meléndez A. (2001). Slumping and a sandbar deposit at the K/T boundary in the El Tecolote section (northeastern Mexico): An impact-induced sediment gravity flow. Geology. 29, 231-234. [Download PDF]

Steurbaut E., Dupuis C., Arenillas I., Molina E. & Matmati M.F. (2000). The Kalaat-Senan section in central Tunisia: a potential reference section for the Danian/Selandian boundary. GFF. Geologiska Föreningens i Stockholm Förhandlingar. 122(1), 158-160. [Download PDF]

Van Simaeys S., De Man E., Vandenberghe N., Brinkhuis H. & Steurbaut E. (2004). Stratigraphic and palaeoenvironmental analysis of the Rupelian-Chattian transition in the type region: evidence from dinoflagellate cysts, foraminifera and calcareous nannofossils. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 208, 31-58. [Download PDF]