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New biostratigraphic data suggest, for the first time, that the long Aptian-Albian Oceanic Anoxic Event was marked by at least three distinct, relatively brief episodes of widespread dysoxia/anoxia which interrupted generally oxygenated conditions. The high-resolution, integrated foraminiferal and nannofossil biostratigraphy derived here allows recognition of an apparently ocean-wide dysoxic/anoxic episode in the early Aptian (Globigerinelloides blowi foraminiferal Zone, Chiastozygus litterarius nannofossil Zone, Conusphaera rothii nannofossil Subzone, shortly after magnetic Chron CMO). Equally widespread, but distributionally patchier dysoxic/anoxic episodes occurred in the early Albian (Hedbergella planispira foraminiferal Zone, Prediscosphaera columnata nannofossil Zone, subzone NC8B) and early late Albian (Biticinella breggiensis foraminiferal Zone, Axopodorhabdus albianus nannofossil Zone, subzone …