Life at the top of the greenhouse Eocene world—a review of the Eocene flora and vertebrate fauna from Canada's High Arctic

JJ Eberle, DR Greenwood - Bulletin, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Early–middle Eocene (ca. 53–38 Ma) sediments of the Eureka Sound Group in
Canada's Arctic Archipelago preserve evidence of lush mixed conifer-broadleaf rain forests …

New age constraints for the Salamanca Formation and lower Río Chico Group in the western San Jorge Basin, Patagonia, Argentina: Implications for Cretaceous …

WC Clyde, P Wilf, A Iglesias, RL Slingerland… - …, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A detailed Re-Os molybdenite, pyrite, and chalcopyrite geochronology at five shear-hosted
Au occurrences (Kenge, Mbenge, Porcupine, Konokono, and Dubwana) in the Lupa …

A perturbed hydrological cycle during Oceanic Anoxic Event 2

NAGM van Helmond, A Sluijs, GJ Reichart… - …, 2014 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract The Late Cretaceous Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 (OAE2; ca. 94 Ma) was one of the
largest global carbon cycle perturbations during the Phanerozoic. OAE2 represents an …

Global decline in ocean ventilation, oxygenation, and productivity during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: Implications for the benthic extinction

AME Winguth, E Thomas, C Winguth - Geology, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The prominent global warming event at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary (55 Ma), referred
to as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), was characterized by rapid …

How wet was the Arctic Eocene rain forest? Estimates of precipitation from Paleogene Arctic macrofloras

DR Greenwood, JF Basinger, RY Smith - Geology, 2010 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Eocene was the warmest part of the Cenozoic, when warm climates extended into the
Arctic, and substantive paleobotanical evidence indicates broadleaf and coniferous polar …

Seawater oxygenation during the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum

AJ Dickson, AS Cohen, AL Coe - Geology, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Uncertainty over the trajectory of seawater oxygenation in the coming decades is of
particular concern in the light of geological episodes of abrupt global warming that were …

Dynamic polar climates in a greenhouse world: Evidence from clumped isotope thermometry of Early Cretaceous belemnites

GD Price, BH Passey - Geology, 2013 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Abstract Sub-arctic Cretaceous (Berriasian–late Valanginian, ca. 145–134 Ma) marine
temperatures obtained from fossil mollusks (belemnites) are determined using carbonate …

A summertime rainy season in the Arctic forests of the Eocene

BA Schubert, AH Jahren, JJ Eberle… - …, 2012 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The discovery of exceptionally well-preserved fossil wood revealed that extensive forests
existed north of the Arctic Circle during the Eocene (ca. 45–55 Ma). Subsequent …

Effects of Arctic freshwater forcing on thermohaline circulation during the Pleistocene

J Knies, J Matthiessen, A Mackensen, R Stein… - …, 2007 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
In this paper, we make use of calcium carbonate-bearing sediment sequences in the Arctic-
Atlantic gateway to produce a standard reference climate record for the Arctic Ocean. We …

New carnivoraforms from the latest Paleocene of Europe and their bearing on the origin and radiation of Carnivoraformes (Carnivoramorpha, Mammalia)

F Solé, T Smith, E De Bast, V Codrea… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
We report the discovery of the earliest European carnivoraforms, based on two new taxa
from the latest Paleocene of France and Romania. A new species of Vassacyon, V. prieuri …