Review and revision of Cenozoic tropical planktonic foraminiferal biostratigraphy and calibration to the geomagnetic polarity and astronomical time scale

BS Wade, PN Pearson, WA Berggren, H Pälike - Earth-Science Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Planktonic foraminifera are widely utilized for the biostratigraphy of Cretaceous and
Cenozoic marine sediments and are a fundamental component of Cenozoic …

A phylogeny of Cenozoic macroperforate planktonic foraminifera from fossil data

T Aze, THG Ezard, A Purvis, HK Coxall… - Biological …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We present a complete phylogeny of macroperforate planktonic foraminifer species of the
Cenozoic Era (∼ 65 million years ago to present). The phylogeny is developed from a large …

A revised tropical to subtropical Paleogene planktonic foraminiferal zonation

WA Berggren, PN Pearson - The Journal of Foraminiferal …, 2005 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
New biostratigraphic investigations on deep sea cores and outcrop sections have revealed
several shortcomings in currently used tropical to subtropical Eocene planktonic …

Interplay between changing climate and species' ecology drives macroevolutionary dynamics

THG Ezard, T Aze, PN Pearson, A Purvis - science, 2011 - science.org
Ecological change provokes speciation and extinction, but our knowledge of the interplay
among the biotic and abiotic drivers of macroevolution remains limited. Using the …

The latitudinal temperature gradient and its climate dependence as inferred from foraminiferal δ18O over the past 95 million years

DE Gaskell, M Huber, CL O'Brien… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The latitudinal temperature gradient is a fundamental state parameter of the climate system
tied to the dynamics of heat transport and radiative transfer. Thus, it is a primary target for …

Paleogene evolution and demise of the proto‐Paratethys Sea in Central Asia (Tarim and Tajik basins): Role of intensified tectonic activity at ca. 41 Ma

MY Kaya, G Dupont‐Nivet, JN Proust, P Roperch… - Basin …, 2019 - earthdoc.org
Abstract The proto‐Paratethys Sea covered a vast area extending from the Mediterranean
Tethys to the Tarim Basin in western China during Cretaceous and early Paleogene …

[HTML][HTML] Taxonomic review of living planktonic foraminifera

GJA Brummer, M Kučera - Journal of Micropalaeontology, 2022 - jm.copernicus.org
Applications of fossil shells of planktonic foraminifera to decipher past environmental
change and plankton evolution require a robust operational taxonomy. In this respect, extant …

Rapid recovery of life at ground zero of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

CM Lowery, TJ Bralower, JD Owens… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Abstract The Cretaceous/Palaeogene mass extinction eradicated 76% of species on Earth,.
It was caused by the impact of an asteroid, on the Yucatán carbonate platform in the …

Environmental changes during the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction and Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum: implications for the Anthropocene

G Keller, P Mateo, J Punekar, H Khozyem, B Gertsch… - Gondwana …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary (KPB) mass extinction (~ 66.02 Ma) and the
Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM)(~ 55.8 Ma) are two remarkable climatic and …

Planktic foraminiferal species turnover across deep-sea Aptian/Albian boundary sections

BT Huber, RM Leckie - The Journal of Foraminiferal …, 2011 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
A major planktic foraminiferal species turnover accompanied by a dramatic reduction in shell
size, a fundamental change in shell architecture, and a precipitous drop in the abundance of …