Zoobenthos

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Zoobenthos

• Forams and ostracods

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Sites and zoobenthos

• Laajalahti non found.
• Perhaps too fresh for forams
• Himmerfjarden non found.
• Perhaps too fresh for forams
• Mariager - only few decalcified tests found.
• Poor preservation, or transported in and no in
  situ fauna due to anoxia
• Dollard abundant euryhaline forams and
  ostracods

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Dollard zoobenthoscore R2
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Conclusions

• Site has been a mud-flat throughout study period
• Changes in sedimentation patterns may have
  affected foram and ostracod concentrations
• Switch between Haynesina germanica and Ammonia
  beccarii difficult to interpret