Life in a Temperate Polar Sea: A Unique Taphonomic Window on the Structure of a Late Cretaceous Arctic Marine Ecosystem

• Main Authors: Chin, Karen, Bloch, John, Sweet, Arthur, Tweet, Justin, Eberle, Jaelyn, Cumbaa, Stephen, Witowski, Jakub, Harwood, David M.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 2008
• Subjects: paleoecology; polar; coprolites; diatoms; vertebrates; trophic; Earth Sciences; Arctic; Canada; Devon Island; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/geosciencefacpub/191; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/geosciencefacpub/article/1192/viewcontent/Harwood_PRSB_2008_Life_temperate_polar_sea__DC_VERSION.pdf

As the earth faces a warming climate, the rock record reminds us that comparable climatic scenarios have occurred before. In the Late Cretaceous, Arctic marine organisms were not subject to frigid temperatures but still contended with seasonal extremes in photoperiod. Here, we describe an unusual fo...