Abstract:Abstract. The Pliocene-Recent is associated with many important climatic and
paleoceanographic changes, which have shaped the biotic and abiotic nature of
the modern world. The closure of the Central American Seaway and the
development and intensification of Northern Hemisphere ice sheets had
profound global impacts on the latitudinal and vertical structure of the
oceans, triggering the extinction and radiation of many marine groups. In
particular, marine calcifying planktonic foraminifera, which are highly
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