Benthic foraminiferal turnover across the Dan-C2 event in the eastern South Atlantic Ocean (ODP Site 1262)
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Elsevier via the DOI in this record The Paleogene was punctuated by perturbations of the global carbon cycle, many associated with transient global warming events (hyperthermals). The Dan-C2 event (~160 kyr after Cretaceous/...
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ftunivexeter:oai:ore.exeter.ac.uk:10871/128314 2024-09-15T18:36:30+00:00 Benthic foraminiferal turnover across the Dan-C2 event in the eastern South Atlantic Ocean (ODP Site 1262) Arreguín-Rodríguez, GJ Barnet, JSK Leng, MJ Littler, K Kroon, D Schmidt, DN Thomas, E Alegret, L 2021 110410- http://hdl.handle.net/10871/128314 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110410 en eng Elsevier Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 572 orcid:0000-0002-4604-3634 (Littler, Kate) ScopusID: 36126559200 (Littler, Kate) Vol. 572, article 110410 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110410 CGL2017-84693-R PID2019-105537RB-I00 NSF_OCE 1536611 IP-1581–1115 http://hdl.handle.net/10871/128314 0031-0182 1872-616X Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology © 2021 Elsevier B.V. This version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ 2022-04-18 Under embargo until 18 April 2022 in compliance with publisher policy https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Warming Benthic foraminifera K/Pg extinction Plankton evolution Paleocene Paleogene Article 2021 ftunivexeter https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2021.110410 2024-07-29T03:24:14Z This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Elsevier via the DOI in this record The Paleogene was punctuated by perturbations of the global carbon cycle, many associated with transient global warming events (hyperthermals). The Dan-C2 event (~160 kyr after Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary; K/Pg) was the oldest of these eccentricity-linked carbon cycle disturbances (ELCD). In contrast to other hyperthermals, the Dan-C2 event was not characterised by bottom water warming, and surface water warming probably was not global. Benthic foraminiferal assemblages across Dan-C2 at SE Atlantic Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 1262 are diverse and strongly dominated by calcareous species. Epifaunal and infaunal morphogroups are equally abundant, suggesting meso-oligotrophic seafloor conditions. Assemblages decreased in diversity gradually before Dan-C2, and Nuttallides truempyi decreased in relative abundance while Stensioeina beccariiformis and the agglutinant Spiroplectammina spectabilis increased, suggesting enhanced food supply to the seafloor. Benthic foraminifera were not highly affected by the Dan-C2 event. An increase in relative abundance of the opportunistic species Bulimina kugleri and Seabrookia cretacea after Dan-C2 points to a change in the type of organic matter arriving at the seafloor. These changes may have been caused by ongoing environmental and/or evolutionary instability following K/Pg mass extinction of oceanic plankton. Variability in composition of pelagic ecosystems, thus the type and/or amount of food arriving at the seafloor, may have been caused by the gradual recovery of pelagic ecosystems after that extinction, possibly affected by warming and pH changes due to Deccan volcanism. Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation FEDER Consolidated Group E05 (Government of Aragon/Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional) Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Conacyt, México) Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) National Science Foundation (NSF) Royal ... Article in Journal/Newspaper South Atlantic Ocean University of Exeter: Open Research Exeter (ORE) Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 572 110410 |
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Warming Benthic foraminifera K/Pg extinction Plankton evolution Paleocene Paleogene Arreguín-Rodríguez, GJ Barnet, JSK Leng, MJ Littler, K Kroon, D Schmidt, DN Thomas, E Alegret, L Benthic foraminiferal turnover across the Dan-C2 event in the eastern South Atlantic Ocean (ODP Site 1262) |
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This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Elsevier via the DOI in this record The Paleogene was punctuated by perturbations of the global carbon cycle, many associated with transient global warming events (hyperthermals). The Dan-C2 event (~160 kyr after Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary; K/Pg) was the oldest of these eccentricity-linked carbon cycle disturbances (ELCD). In contrast to other hyperthermals, the Dan-C2 event was not characterised by bottom water warming, and surface water warming probably was not global. Benthic foraminiferal assemblages across Dan-C2 at SE Atlantic Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Site 1262 are diverse and strongly dominated by calcareous species. Epifaunal and infaunal morphogroups are equally abundant, suggesting meso-oligotrophic seafloor conditions. Assemblages decreased in diversity gradually before Dan-C2, and Nuttallides truempyi decreased in relative abundance while Stensioeina beccariiformis and the agglutinant Spiroplectammina spectabilis increased, suggesting enhanced food supply to the seafloor. Benthic foraminifera were not highly affected by the Dan-C2 event. An increase in relative abundance of the opportunistic species Bulimina kugleri and Seabrookia cretacea after Dan-C2 points to a change in the type of organic matter arriving at the seafloor. These changes may have been caused by ongoing environmental and/or evolutionary instability following K/Pg mass extinction of oceanic plankton. Variability in composition of pelagic ecosystems, thus the type and/or amount of food arriving at the seafloor, may have been caused by the gradual recovery of pelagic ecosystems after that extinction, possibly affected by warming and pH changes due to Deccan volcanism. Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation FEDER Consolidated Group E05 (Government of Aragon/Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional) Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Conacyt, México) Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) National Science Foundation (NSF) Royal ... |
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Benthic foraminiferal turnover across the Dan-C2 event in the eastern South Atlantic Ocean (ODP Site 1262) |
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Benthic foraminiferal turnover across the Dan-C2 event in the eastern South Atlantic Ocean (ODP Site 1262) |
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Benthic foraminiferal turnover across the Dan-C2 event in the eastern South Atlantic Ocean (ODP Site 1262) |
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