From greenhouse to icehouse; organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts as paleoenvironmental indicators in the Paleogene

A Sluijs, J Pross, H Brinkhuis - Earth-Science Reviews, 2005 - Elsevier
Dinoflagellates are an important component of the extant eukaryotic plankton. Their organic-
walled, hypnozygotic cysts (dinocysts) provide a rich, albeit incomplete, history of the group …

Palynological evidence for prolonged cooling along the Tunisian continental shelf following the K–Pg boundary impact

J Vellekoop, J Smit, B van de Schootbrugge… - Palaeogeography …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Cretaceous–Palaeogene (K–Pg) boundary mass extinction event is related to
major global environmental changes resulting from a large extraterrestrial impact. Organic …

New composite bio-and isotope stratigraphies spanning the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum at tropical ODP Site 865 in the Pacific Ocean

KM Edgar, SM Bohaty, HK Coxall… - Journal of …, 2020 - jm.copernicus.org
The Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) at ca. 40 Ma is one of the largest of the
transient Eocene global warming events. However, it is relatively poorly known from tropical …

Morphology and paleoenvironmental significance of the Cenozoic dinoflagellate genera Tectatodinium and Habibacysta

MJ Head - Micropaleontology, 1994 - JSTOR
Presence of the warm-water species Tectatodinium pellitum Wall 1967 emend. nov. is
established for the mid Pliocene Coralline Crag Formation (about 3.75-3.55 Ma) at Rockhall …

Anomalous South Atlantic lithologies confirm global scale of unusual mid-Pleistocene climate excursion

FX Gingele, F Schmieder - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2001 - Elsevier
Carbonate-rich nannofossil oozes are the typical sediments deposited under the low-
productivity regime of the subtropical gyre in the South Atlantic. Surface productivity has …

Pleistocene climatic history reflected in planktonic foraminifera from ODP Site 1073 (Leg 174A), New Jersey margin, NW Atlantic Ocean

HC Olson, CW Smart - Marine Micropaleontology, 2004 - Elsevier
Abundance records of planktonic foraminifera (> 150 μm) from the upper 520 m of ODP Site
1073 (Hole 1073A, Leg 174A, 639 m water depth) have been integrated with SPECMAP …

Paleoenvironmental conditions for the development of calcareous nannofossil acme during the late Miocene in the eastern equatorial Pacific

C Beltran, G Rousselle, J Backman… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Repeated monospecific coccolithophore dominance intervals (acmes) of specimens
belonging to the Noelaerhabdaceae family—including the genus Reticulofenestra and …

Enhanced siliceous plankton productivity in response to middle Eocene warming at Southern Ocean ODP Sites 748 and 749

J Witkowski, SM Bohaty, K McCartney… - Palaeogeography …, 2012 - Elsevier
The Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) is a major transient warming event that
occurred at~ 40Ma and reversed a long-term cooling trend through the early and middle …

Sea level and astronomically induced environmental changes in middle and late Eocene sediments from the East Tasman Plateau

U Röhl, H Brinkhuis, CE Stickley… - Geophysical …, 2004 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
Eocene sediments drilled at the East Tasman Plateau (ETP) exhibit well-defined cycles, high-
resolution magnetic stratigraphy, and environmentally-controlled dinoflagellate and diatom …

High interglacial diatom paleoproductivity in the westernmost Indo‐Pacific Warm Pool during the past 130,000 years

OE Romero, M Mohtadi, P Helmke… - …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
A wealth of sedimentary records aimed at reconstructing late Quaternary changes in
productivity and temperature have been devoted to understanding linkages between the …