Inferred nutrient forcing on the late middle Eocene to early Oligocene (~40–31 Ma) evolution of the coccolithophore Reticulofenestra (order Isochrysidales)
Abstract The first size reduction (FSR) in the Reticulofenestra-Gephyrocapsa-Emiliania ( RGE ) lineage (order Isochrysidales), which occurred in the early Oligocene (~32 Ma), is of great significance for understanding the Lilliput effect that has affected coccolithophore communities from the late Eo...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/pab.2023.20 2024-04-07T07:47:52+00:00 Inferred nutrient forcing on the late middle Eocene to early Oligocene (~40–31 Ma) evolution of the coccolithophore Reticulofenestra (order Isochrysidales) Ma, Ruigang Aubry, Marie-Pierre Bord, David Jin, Xiaobo Liu, Chuanlian National Natural Science Foundation of China National Natural Science Foundation of China 2023 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2023.20 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0094837323000209 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Paleobiology volume 50, issue 1, page 29-42 ISSN 0094-8373 1938-5331 Paleontology General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Ecology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics journal-article 2023 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2023.20 2024-03-08T00:35:01Z Abstract The first size reduction (FSR) in the Reticulofenestra-Gephyrocapsa-Emiliania ( RGE ) lineage (order Isochrysidales), which occurred in the early Oligocene (~32 Ma), is of great significance for understanding the Lilliput effect that has affected coccolithophore communities from the late Eocene to this day. We conducted a morphologic analysis on the coccoliths of Reticulofenestra species that lived during the late middle Eocene to early Oligocene (~40–31 Ma), using marine sediments from the South Atlantic Ocean. Our data show increasing size and decreasing abundance of the large species during the late Eocene, leading to their disappearance at the FSR, and a concurrent decrease in the size variability of the small- to medium-sized coccoliths whose central opening diameter had become very reduced. Although the cosmopolitan late Paleogene through Neogene size decrease in coccolithophores has been linked to the concomitant long-term decline in global p CO 2 , we suggest here that the FSR was the result of environmental destabilization caused by the expansion of eutrophic environments following the late Eocene establishment of overturning circulation associated with ice buildup on Antarctica. This study also leads us to propose a hypothetical model that links coccolith morphology of species of the RGE lineage and trophic resources in the upper ocean: the small- to medium-sized, r-selected coccolithophores with smaller coccolith central openings live in nutrient-rich waters where they rely mostly on photosynthesis and little on mixotrophy, whereas the larger, K-selected species with larger coccolith central openings live in oligotrophic waters where they are more dependent on mixotrophy. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica South Atlantic Ocean Cambridge University Press Paleobiology 50 1 29 42 |
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Abstract The first size reduction (FSR) in the Reticulofenestra-Gephyrocapsa-Emiliania ( RGE ) lineage (order Isochrysidales), which occurred in the early Oligocene (~32 Ma), is of great significance for understanding the Lilliput effect that has affected coccolithophore communities from the late Eocene to this day. We conducted a morphologic analysis on the coccoliths of Reticulofenestra species that lived during the late middle Eocene to early Oligocene (~40–31 Ma), using marine sediments from the South Atlantic Ocean. Our data show increasing size and decreasing abundance of the large species during the late Eocene, leading to their disappearance at the FSR, and a concurrent decrease in the size variability of the small- to medium-sized coccoliths whose central opening diameter had become very reduced. Although the cosmopolitan late Paleogene through Neogene size decrease in coccolithophores has been linked to the concomitant long-term decline in global p CO 2 , we suggest here that the FSR was the result of environmental destabilization caused by the expansion of eutrophic environments following the late Eocene establishment of overturning circulation associated with ice buildup on Antarctica. This study also leads us to propose a hypothetical model that links coccolith morphology of species of the RGE lineage and trophic resources in the upper ocean: the small- to medium-sized, r-selected coccolithophores with smaller coccolith central openings live in nutrient-rich waters where they rely mostly on photosynthesis and little on mixotrophy, whereas the larger, K-selected species with larger coccolith central openings live in oligotrophic waters where they are more dependent on mixotrophy. |
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Inferred nutrient forcing on the late middle Eocene to early Oligocene (~40–31 Ma) evolution of the coccolithophore Reticulofenestra (order Isochrysidales) |
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Inferred nutrient forcing on the late middle Eocene to early Oligocene (~40–31 Ma) evolution of the coccolithophore Reticulofenestra (order Isochrysidales) |
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Inferred nutrient forcing on the late middle Eocene to early Oligocene (~40–31 Ma) evolution of the coccolithophore Reticulofenestra (order Isochrysidales) |
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Inferred nutrient forcing on the late middle Eocene to early Oligocene (~40–31 Ma) evolution of the coccolithophore Reticulofenestra (order Isochrysidales) |
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Inferred nutrient forcing on the late middle Eocene to early Oligocene (~40–31 Ma) evolution of the coccolithophore Reticulofenestra (order Isochrysidales) |
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inferred nutrient forcing on the late middle eocene to early oligocene (~40–31 ma) evolution of the coccolithophore reticulofenestra (order isochrysidales) |
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