Maastrichtian to Danian Atlantic transgression in the north of Patagonia: A dinoflagellate cyst approach

• Published in: Journal of South American Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Guler, Maria Veronica, González Estebenet, María Sol, Navarro, Edgardo Luis, Astini, Ricardo Alfredo, Perez Panera, Juan Pablo, Ottone, Eduardo Guillermo, Pieroni, Daniel, Paolillo, Melisa Andrea
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: Dinoflagellate Cysts; Late Maastricthian-Early Paleocene; Paleobiogeography; Paleoenvironments; Patagonia; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Argentina; Uruguay; Navarro; Edgardo; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/83838

The late Maastrichtian to early Paleocene marine successions in northern Patagonia and neighboring southwestern Atlantic Ocean Basins provided a valuable organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts record. Assemblages around the Cretaceous?Paleogene boundary and more pronounced in the Danian compare well with those coevals from lower latitudes sites (e.g. Brazil, Uruguay, Tunisia, Israel). Humid-warm climate prevailing in Patagonia together with counterclockwise oceanic circulation along the southwestern South Atlantic Ocean would have favored the exchange of taxa of the marine biota with lower-latitude basins, and helped to explain the similarities of the marine palynoflora from the southernmost part of South America and those from the widely separated Tethyan domains. Quantitative data of Danian dinoflagellate cyts assemblages from the north of Patagonia were used to infer palaeoecological and paleoenvironmental conditions in terms of nutrient availability, salinity, and coastal proximity, providing refined local paleogeography in an epicontinental context. Consistent with Tethyan sites records, assemblages from northern Patagonia exhibit high abundance or dominance of the presumed heterotrophic dinoflagellate cysts, denoting a globally nutrient - enrichment of the watermasses during the Danian. Fil: Guler, Maria Veronica. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto Geológico del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Geología. Instituto Geológico del Sur; Argentina Fil: González Estebenet, María Sol. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Bahía Blanca. Instituto Geológico del Sur. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Geología. Instituto Geológico del Sur; Argentina Fil: Navarro, Edgardo Luis. Provincia de Buenos Aires. Gobernación. Comisión de Investigaciones Científicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional del Sur. Departamento de Geología; Argentina ...