Middle Eocene large coccolithaceans: Biostratigraphic implications and paleoclimatic clues

• Main Authors: Cappelli, C, Agnini, C, Bown, PR, De Riu, M
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier BV 2020
• Subjects: Middle Eocene; Calcareous nannofossils; Coccolithaceae; Evolutionary lineage; Central-area cross-bars; Pletolithus; Giganteus; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10087736/1/Cappelli%20et%20al_%20MarMic%20accepted.pdf; https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10087736/

A combined light microscope-scanning electron microscope study of exceptionally well-preserved calcareous nannofossil assemblages from clay-rich middle Eocene sediments recovered at IODP Site U1410 (NW Atlantic Ocean) has enabled us to document a new evolutionary lineage within Coccolithus-like plac...