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.