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SANFILIPPO, ANNIKA

Specialist in Paleontology

Degrees:

• B.S., Karolinska Institute, University of Stockholm, Sweden
• Ph.D., University of Stockholm, Sweden

Research Interests:

• Magnetobiostratigraphic correlation; radiolarian taxonomy and evolution
• Reassessment of paleogene radiolarian datum events
• Managing the DSDP/ODP Micropaleontological Reference Collection

Honors and Awards:

• UNESCO award to participate in geological field trip to Cuba, Jan. 1993
• Bronze medal, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, August 1997 for significant contributions to ocean science.

Riedel, W. R. and A. Sanfilippo, 1970. Radiolaria, Leg 4, Deep Sea Drilling Project. Init. Repts. Deep Sea Drilling Project; IV, 503-575.

Lewin, R. A. and A. Sanfilippo, 1970. Preservation of Flexibacteria in liquid nitrogen. Canadian Journal of Microbiology, vol. 16, pp. 441-444.

Sanfilippo, A. and W. R. Riedel, 1970. Post-Eocene 'closed' theoperid radiolarians." Micropaleontology, 16, 446-462.

Riedel, W. R. and A. Sanfilippo, 1971. Cenozoic Radiolaria from the western tropical Pacific. Init. Repts. Deep Sea Drilling Project, VII, 1529-1627.

Sanfilippo, A., 1971. Neogene radiolarians of the Mediterranean and western Pacific. In: Proceedings of the II Planktonic Conference, Roma 1970, Fariniacci, A., Ed., pp.1121-1127.

Brönnimann, P., E. Martini, J. Resig, W. R. Riedel, A. Sanfilippo and T. Worsley, 1971. Biostratigraphic synthesis: late Oligocene and Neogene of the western tropical Pacific. Init. Repts. Deep Sea Drilling Project, VII, 1723-1745.

Sanfilippo, A. and W. R. Riedel, 1973. Cenozoic Radiolaria (exclusive of theoperids, artostrobiids and amphipyndacids) from the Gulf of Mexico, Deep Sea Drilling Project, Leg 10. Init. Repts. Deep Sea Drilling Project, X, 475-610.

Sanfilippo, A., L. H. Burckle, E. Martini, and W. R. Riedel, 1973. Radiolarians, diatoms, silicoflagellates and calcareous nannofossils in the Mediterranean Neogene. Micropaleontology, 19, 209-234.

Riedel, W. R. and A. Sanfilippo, 1973. Cenozoic Radiolaria from the Caribbean, DSDP Leg 15. Init. Repts. Deep Sea Drilling Project, XV, 705-751.

Saunders, J. B., F. M. Beaudry, W. W. Hay, H. M. Bolli, F. Rögl, W. R. Riedel, A. Sanfilippo, and I. Premoli-Silva, 1973. Paleocene to Recent planktonic microfossil distribution in the marine and land areas of the Caribbean. Init. Repts. Deep Sea Drilling Project, XV, 769-771.

Sanfilippo, A. and W. R. Riedel, 1974. Radiolaria from the West-Central Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden, DSDP Leg 24. Init. Repts. Deep Sea Drilling Project, XXIV, 997-1002.

Sanfilippo, A. and W. R. Riedel, 1974. Some radiolarian samples from the Western Indian Ocean, DSDP Leg 25. Init. Repts. Deep Sea Drilling Project, XXV, 657-661.

Riedel, W. R. and A. Sanfilippo, 1974. Radiolaria from the Southern Indian Ocean, DSDP Leg 26. Init. Repts. Deep Sea Drilling Project, XXVI, 771-813.

Riedel, W. R., A. Sanfilippo, and M. B. Cita, 1974. VI. Radiolarians from the stratotype Zanclean (Lower Pliocene, Sicily). Studi sul Pliocene e sugli strati di passaggio dal Miocene al Pliocene. Riv. Ital. Paleont., 80, 699-734.

Sanfilippo, A. and W. R. Riedel, 1975. Late Tertiary Radiolarians from Crete. VIth Congress Regional Committee on Mediterranean Neogene Stratigraphy Proc., Bratislava 1975, 1, 61-74.

Caro, Y., H. Luterbacher, K. Perch-Nielsen, I. Premoli-Silva, W. R. Riedel, and A. Sanfilippo, 1975. Zonations à l'aide de microfossiles pélagiques du Paléocène supérieur et de l'Eocène inférieur. Bull. Soc. Geol. de France, Serie 7, XVII, 125-147.

Sanfilippo, A. and W. R. Riedel, 1976. Radiolarian occurrences in the Caribbean Region. VII Confèrence Géologique des Caraìbes du 30 Juin au 12 Juillet 1974, Cayenne, Département Francais de la Guyane, 146-168.

Berggren, W. A., R. H. Benson, B. U. Haq, W. R. Riedel, A. Sanfilippo, H.-J. Schrader, and R. C. Tjalsma, 1976. The El Cuervo section (Andalusia, Spain): Micropaleontologic anatomy of an early Late Miocene Lower Bathyal Deposit. Marine Micropaleontology, 1, 195-247.

Riedel, W. R. and A. Sanfilippo, 1977. Cainozoic Radiolaria. In A.T.S. Ramsay (ed.), Oceanic Micropalaeontology, 2, 847-912.

Sanfilippo, A., J.-P. Caulet, and W. R. Riedel, 1978. Radiolaria from Mediterranean sediments, DSDP Leg 42A. Init. Repts. Deep Sea Drilling Project, XLII, 753-760.

Riedel, W. R. and A. Sanfilippo, 1978. Radiolaria. Utrecht Micropaleontological Bulletin, 17, Micropaleontological counting methods and techniques - an exercise on an eight metres section of the Lower Pliocene of Capo Rossello, Sicily, 81-127.

Riedel, W. R. and A. Sanfilippo, 1978. Stratigraphy and evolution of tropical Cenozoic radiolarians. Micropaleontology, 24,61-84.

De Wever, P., A. Sanfilippo, W. R. Riedel, and B. Gruber, 1979. Triassic radiolarians from Greece, Sicily and Turkey. Micropaleontology, 25, 75-110.

Sanfilippo A. and W. R. Riedel, 1979. Radiolaria from the Northeastern Atlantic Ocean, DSDP Leg 48. Init. Repts. Deep Sea Drilling Project, XLVIII, 493-511.

Westberg, M. J., A. Sanfilippo, and W. R. Riedel, 1980. Radiolarians from the Moroccan Basin, Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 50. Init. Repts. of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, L, 429-437.

Sanfilippo, A. and W. Riedel, 1980. A revised generic and suprageneric classification of the Artiscins (Radiolaria). Journal of Paleontology, 54, 1008-1012.

Sanfilippo, A., M. J. Westberg, and W. R. Riedel, 1981. Cenozoic Radiolarians at Site 462, Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 61, Western Tropical Pacific. Init. Repts. of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, LXI, 495-505. Research Article

Westberg, W. J., A. Sanfilippo, and W. R. Riedel, 1981. Radiolaria. In F. Cati (ed.), In Search of the Palaeogene/Neogene Boundary Stratotype; Giornale di Geologia, ser. 2a, 44(1-2), 155-156.

Riedel, W. R. and A. Sanfilippo, 1981. Evolution and diversity of form in Radiolaria. In T.L. Simpson and B.E. Volcani (eds.), Silicon and Siliceous Structures in Biological Systems, 323-346. Springer-Verlag.

Sanfilippo, A. and W. R. Riedel, 1982. Revision of the radiolarian genera Theocotyle, Theocotylissa and Thyrsocyrtis. Micropaleontology, 28, 170-188.

Saunders, J. B., D. Bernoulli, E. Müller-Mertz, H. Oberhänsli, K. Perch-Nielsen, W. R. Riedel, A. Sanfilippo, and R. Torrini, Jr., 1985. Stratigraphy of the late Middle Eocene to Early Oligocene in the Bath Cliff section, Barbados, West Indies. Micropaleontology, 30, 390-425.

Sanfilippo, A., W. R. Riedel, B. P. Glass, and F. T. Kyte, 1985. Late Eocene microtektites and radiolarian extinctions on Barbados. Nature, 314, 613-615.

Sanfilippo, A. and W. R. Riedel, 1985. Cretaceous Radiolaria. In H.M. Bolli et al. (eds.), Plankton Stratigraphy, 573-630. Cambridge Univ. Press.

Sanfilippo, A., M. J. Westberg-Smith, and W. R. Riedel, 1985. Cenozoic Radiolaria. In H.M. Bolli et al. (eds.), Plankton Stratigraphy, 631-712. Cambridge Univ. Press.

Riedel, W. R. and A. Sanfilippo, 1986. Radiolarian events and the Eocene-Oligocene boundary. In C. Pomerol and S. Premoli-Silva (eds.), Terminal Eocene Events, 253-257. Elsevier.

Riedel W. R. and A. Sanfilippo, 1986. Morphological characters for a natural classification of Cenozoic Radiolaria, reflecting phylogenies. Marine Micropaleontology, 11, 151-170.

Sanfilippo, A., 1988. Pliocene Radiolaria from Bianco, Calabria, Italy. Micropaleontology, 34 (2), 159-180.

Rio, D., R. Thunell, R. Sprovieri, D. Bukry, E. DeStefano, M. Howell, I. Raffi, C. Sancetta and A. Sanfilippo, 1989. Stratigraphy and depositional history of the Pliocene Bianco Section, Calabria, Southern Italy. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 76, 85-105.

Sanfilippo, A. 1990. Origin of the subgenera Cyclampterium, Paralampterium and Sciadiopeplus from Lophocyrtis (Lophocyrtis) (Radiolaria, Theoperidae). Marine Micropaleontology, 15, 287-312.

Sanfilippo, A. and W. R. Riedel, 1990. Morphometric analysis of evolving Eocene Podocyrtis (Radiolaria) morphotypes using shape coordinates. In Rohlf, F. J. and Bookstein, F. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Michigan Morphometrics Workshop held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 16 -28, Spec. Publ. No. 2., Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan, Museum of Zoology, pp. 345-362.

Sanfilippo, A. and W. R. Riedel, 1992. The origin and evolution of Pterocorythidae (Radiolaria): A Cenozoic phylogenetic study. Micropaleontology, 38(1), 1-36.

Speed, R. C., P. L. Smith-Horowitz, K. Perch-Nielsen, J. B. Saunders and A. Sanfilippo, 1993. Southern Lesser Antilles Arc Platform: Pre-Late Miocene Stratigraphy, Structure and Tectonic Evolution. Geol. Soc. Amer. Spec. Paper 277, pp. 1-98.

Weinheimer, A. L., A. Sanfilippo and W. R. Riedel, 1994. Radiolarians from Leg 134, Vanuatu region, Southwestern tropical Pacific. In Greene, H. G., Collot, J.-Y., Stokking, L. B., et al., 134: Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 134: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), pp 309-317.

Sanfilippo, A. and C. Nigrini, 1995. Radiolarian stratigraphy across the Oligocene/Miocene transition. Marine Micropaleontology, 24, 239-285.

Sanfilippo, A. and C. Nigrini, 1998. Code numbers for Cenozoic low latitude radiolarian biostratigraphic zones and GPTS conversion tables. Marine Micropaleontology, 33: 109-156.

Sanfilippo, A. and Caulet, J. P., 1998. Taxonomy and evolution of Paleogene Antarctic and tropical lophocyrtid radiolarians. Micropaleontology, 44(1):1-43.

Sanfilippo, A. and Hull, D. M., 1999. Upper Paleocene-lower Eocene radiolarian biostratigraphy of the San Francisco de Paula Section, western Cuba: Regional and global comparisons. Micropaleontology, 45(2):57-82.

Nigrini, C. and Sanfilippo, A., 2000. Paleogene Radiolaria from Sites 998, 999 and 1001 in the Caribbean. In: R. M. Leckie, H. Sigurdsson, G. D. Acton, and G. Draper (Eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 165: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 57-81.

Sanfilippo, A. and Blome, C. D., 2001. Biostratigraphic implications of mid-latitude Paleocene-Eocene radiolarian faunas from Hole 1051A, Ocean Drilling Leg 171B, Blake Nose, western North Atlantic. In: Kroon, D., Norris, R. D., and Klaus, A. (eds.), Western North Atlantic Paleogene and Cretaceous Paleoceanography. Geological Society, London, Special Publication 183, pp. 185-224.

Nigrini, C. and Sanfilippo, A., 2001. Cenozoic radiolarian stratigraphy for low and middle latitudes with descriptions of biomarkers and stratigraphically useful species. Ocean Drilling Program, Technical Note 27, Ocean Drilling Program, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. Link to publication

Sanfilippo, A., Hakyemez, A. and Tekin, U. K., 2003. Biostratigraphy of late Paleocene-Middle Eocene radiolarians and foraminifera from Cyprus. Micropaleontology, 49(1):47-64.

Sanfilippo, A. and Fourtanier, E., 2003. Oligocene radiolarians and diatoms form the Great Australian Bight (Site 1128, ODP Leg 182). In: Feary, D. A., Hine, A. C., Malone, M. J. et al. (eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 182: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program), 1-24. Link to publication

Moore, T. C., Jr., Backman, J., Raffi, I., Nigrini, C., Sanfilippo, A., Paelike, H., and Lyle, M., 2004. The Paleogene tropical Pacific: Clues to circulation, productivity and plate motion. Paleoceanography, 19, PA3013, doi10.1029/2003PA000998

Nigrini, C., Sanfilippo, A., and Moore, T. C., Jr., 2006. Cenozoic radiolarian biostratigraphy: A magnetobiostratigraphic chronology of Cenozoic sequences from ODP Sites 1218, 1219 and 1220, equatorial Pacific. In: Wilson, P. A., Lyle, M., and Firth, J. (eds.), Proc. ODP, Sci. Results, 199: College Station, TX (Ocean Drilling Program) 199 [Online] Available from World Wide Web: Link to publication [Cited YYYY-MM-DD]

Brabb, E. E., Ristau, D., Bukry, D., McDougall, K., Almgren, A. A., Saul, L.-E., and Sanfilippo, A., 2008. Newly discovered Paleocene and Eocene rocks near Fairfield, California, and correlation with rocks in Vaca Valley and the so-called Martinez Formation or Stage. USGS Open Files. Submitted 24 June, 2008. Online: Link to publication