Distribution of calcareous dinoflagellates from the Maastrichtian to early Miocene of DSDP Site 357 (Rio Grande Rise, western South Atlantic Ocean)

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 88, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 694-707

  Hildebraiid Habel, T ^a   Willems, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calcareous dinoflagellates; Climatic change; Cretaceous; Eocene Oligocene boundary; K T boundary; South Atlantic; Tertiary

Indexed keywords

CALCAREOUS ALGA; CLIMATE CHANGE; CRETACEOUS-TERTIARY BOUNDARY; DINOFLAGELLATE; MAASTRICHTIAN; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; PALEOECOLOGY; TERTIARY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; RIO GRANDE RISE;

EID: 0343851154     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005310050298     Document Type: Article

References (91)

1. Barrera E (1994) Global environmental change preceding the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary: Early-late Maastrichtian transition. Geology 22:877-880
2. Berger WH, Wefer G (1996) Expeditions into the past: paleoceanographic studies in the South Atlantic. In: Wefer G, Berger WH, Siedler G, Webb DJ (eds) The South Atlantic: present and past circulation. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, pp 363-410
3. Boersma A, Shackleton N (1977) Tertiary oxygen and carbon isotope stratigraphy, Site 357 (mid latitude South Atlantic). DSDPInit Rep 39:911-924
4. Bolli HM (1974) Jurassic and Cretaceous Calcisphaerulidae from DSDP Leg 27, eastern Indian Ocean. DSDP Init Rep 27:843-907
5. Bolli HM (1978) Cretaceous and Paleogene Calcisphaerulidae from DSDP Leg 40, southeastern Atlantic. DSDP Init Rep 40:819-837
6. Bramlette MN, Martini E (1964) The great change in calcareous nannoplankton fossils between the Maastrichtian and Danian. Micropaleontology 10:291-322
7. Brinkhuis H, Bujak JP, Versteegh GJM, Visscher H (1998) Dinoflagellate-based sea surface temperature reconstructions across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary. Palaeogeogr Palaeoclimatol Palaeoecol 141:67-83
8. Canudo J, Keller G, Molina E, Ortiz N (1995) Planktic foraminiferal turnover and £13C isotopes across the Paleocene-Eocene transition at Caravanca and Zumaya, Spain. Palaeogeogr Palaeoclimatol Palaeoecol 114:75-100
9. Crowley TJ, North GR (1991) Paleoclimatology. Oxford Monographs on Geology and Geophysics 18. Oxford University Press, New York
10. Dale B, Dale AL (1992) Dinoflagellate contributions to the Deep Sea. Ocean Biocoenosis Series 5. Woods Hole Oceanogr Inst, Woods Hole, Mass.
11. Deflandre G (1947) Calciodinellum nov. gen., premier représentant d' une famille nouvelle de Dinoflagellates fossiles atheque calcaire. C R Acad Sci 224:1781-1782
12. Deflandre G (1948) Les Calciodinellidés Dinoflagellés fossiles a theque calcaire. Botaniste 34:191-219
13. Dias-Brito D (1994) Comparison of Mid-Cretaceous pelagic carbonates of the marginal Atlantic of Brazil with those of the Gulf of Mexico: new evidence for a South Atlantic Tethys. Bol 3° Simpös Cret Brasil:ll-18
14. Diester-Haass L, Zahn R (1996) Eocene-Oligocene transition in the Southern Ocean: history of water mass circulation and biolgical productivity. Geology 24:163-166
15. Ehrenberg CG (1831) Animalia evertebrata. In: Hemprich PC, Ehrenberg CG (eds) Symbolae physicae. Pars zoologica
16. Eshet Y, Moshkovitz S, Habib D, Benjamini C, Magaritz M (1992) Calcareous nannofossil and dinoflagellate stratigraphy across the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary at Hor Hahar, Israel. Mar Micropaleontol 18:199-228
17. Fensome RA, Taylor FJR, Norris G, Sarjeant WAS, Wharton DI, Williams GL (1993) A classification of living and fossil dinoflagellates. Micropaleontol Spec Publ 7:1-351
18. Fütterer DK (1977) Distribution of calcareous dinoflagellates in Cenozoic sediments of Site 366, eastern North Atlantic. DSDP Init Rep 41:709-737
19. Fütterer DK (1984) Pithonelloid calcareous dinoflagellates from the Upper Cretaceous and Cenozoic of the southeastern Atlantic Ocean, Deep Sea Drilling Project 74. DSDP Init Rep 74:533-541
20. Fütterer DK (1990) Distribution of calcareous dinoflagellates at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary of Queen Maud Rise, eastern Weddell Sea, Antarctica (OOP Leg 113). Proc OOP Sci Results 113:533-548
21. Gilbert MW, Clark DL (1983) Central Arctic Ocean paleoceanographic interpretation based on Late Cenozoic calcareous dinoflagellates. Mar Micropaleontol 7:385-401
22. Hallam A, Perch-Nielsen K (1990) The biotic record of events in the marine realm at the end of the Cretaceous: calcareous, siliceous and organic-walled microfossils and macroinvertebrates. Tectonophysics 171:347-357
23. Haq BU (1973) Transgressions, climatic change and the diversity of calcareous nannoplankton. Mar Geol 15:M25-M30
24. Hay WW, DeConto RM, Wold CN (1997) Climate: Is the past the key to the future? Geol Rundsch 86:471-491
25. Henriksson AS (1996) Calcareous nannoplankton productivity and succession across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in the Pacific (DSDP Site 465) and Atlantic (DSDP Site 527) Oceans. Cretaceous Res 17:451-477
26. Hildebrand-Habel T, Willems H (1997) Calcareous dinoflagellate cysts from the middle Coniacian to upper Santonian chalk facies of Lägerdorf (N Germany). Cour Forsch-Inst Senckenberg 201:177-199
27. Hildebrand-Habel T, Willems H (1999) New calcareous dinoflagellates from the Palaeogene of the South Atlantic Ocean (DSDP Site 357, Rio Grande Rise). J Micropalaeontol 18:89-95
28. Hildebrand-Habel T, Willems H, Versteegh GJM (1999) Variations in calcareous dinoflagellate associations from the Maastrichtian to middle Eocene of the western South Atlantic Ocean (Sao Paulo Plateau, DSDP Leg 39, Site 356). Rev Palaeobot Palynol 106:57-87
29. Höll C (1998) Kalkige und organisch-wandige DinoflagellatenZysten in spätquartären Sedimenten des tropischen Atlantiks und ihre palökologische Auswertbarkeit. Ber Fachbereich Geowissenschaften Uni Bremen 127:1-121
30. Höll C, Zonneveld KAF, Willems H (1998) On the ecology of calcareous dinoflagellates: the Quaternary eastern Equatorial Atlantic. Mar Micropaleontol 33:1-25
31. Höll C, Karwath B, Riihlemann C, Zonneveld KAF, Willems H (1999) Palaeoenvironmental information gained from calcareous dinoflagellates: comparison of the Late Quaternary eastern and western tropical Atlantic Ocean. Palaeogeogr Palaeoclimatol Palaeoecol 146:147-164
32. Janofske D (1992) Kalkiges Nannoplankton, insbesondere kalkige Dinoflagellaten-Zysten der alpinen Ober-Trias: Taxonomie, Biostratigraphie und Bedeutung für die Phylogenie der Peridiniales. Berliner geowiss Abh (E) 4:1-53
33. Janofske D (1996) Ultrastructure types in Recent "calcispheres". Bull Inst Océanogr Monaco 14:295-427
34. Jiang MJ, Gärtner S (1986) Calcareous nannofossil succession across the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary in east-central Texas. Micropaleontology 32:232-255
35. Kamptner E (1944) Coccolithineen-Studien im Golf von Neapel. Wiener Bot Z 93:138-147
36. Kamptner E (1963) Coccolithineen-Skeletettreste aus Tiefseeablagerungen des Pazifischen Ozeans. Ann Naturhist Museum Wien 66:139-204
37. Kaufmann FJ (1865) Polythalamien des Seewerkalkes. In: Heer O (ed) Die Urwelt der Schweiz. Friedrich Schulthess, Zürich, pp 194-199
38. Keller G, Barrera E (1990) The Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary impact hypothesis and the paleontological record. In: Sharpton VL, Ward PD (eds) Global catastrophes in earth history; an interdisciplinary conference on impacts, volcanism, and mass mortality. Geol Soc Am Spec Pap 247:563-575
39. Keller G, Li L, MacLeod N (1995) The Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary stratotype section at El Kef, Tunisia: How catastrophic was the mass extinction? Palaeogeogr Palaeoclimatol Palaeoecol 119:221-254
40. Kenneu JP, Barker PF (1990) Latest Cretaceous to Cenozoic climate and océanographie developments in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica: an ocean-drilling perspective. Proc ODP Sci Results 113:937-960
41. Kerntopf B (1996) Dinoflagellate distribution patterns and preservation in the Equatorial Atlantic and offshore NorthWest Africa. Ber Fachbereich Geowissenschaften Uni Bremen 103:1-137
42. Keupp H (1979) Calciodinelloidea aus der Blätterton-Fazies des nordwestdeutschen Unter-Barremium. Ber Naturhist Ges Hannover 122:7-69
43. Keupp H (1980) Calcigonellutn Deflandre 1948 und Echinodinella n.gen. (kalkige Dinoflagellaten-Zysten) aus der nordwestdeutschen Unter-Kreide. Facies 2:123-148
44. Keupp H (1981) Die kalkigen Dinoflagellaten-Zysten der borealen Unter-Kreide (Unter-Hauterivium bis UnterAlbium). Facies 5:1-190
45. Keupp H (1984) Revision der kalkigen Dinoflagellaten-Zysten G. Deflandres, 1948. Paläontol Z 58:9-31
46. Keupp H (1987) Die kalkigen Dinoflagellatenzysten des Mittelalb bis Untercenoman von Escalles/Boulonnais (N-Frankreich). Facies 16:37-88
47. Keupp H (1991) Fossil calcareous dinoflagellate cysts. In: Riding R (ed) Calcareous algae and stromatolites. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, pp 267-286
48. Keupp H, Kohring R (1994) Kalkige Dinoflagellaten-Zysten aus dem Rupelton (Mittel-Oligozän) des Mainzer Beckens und der Niederrheinischen Bucht. Mainzer Geowiss Mitt 23:159-184
49. Keupp H, Mutterlose J (1984) Organismenverteilung in den DBeds von Speeton (Unterkreide, England) unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der kalkigen Dinoflagellaten-Zysten. Facies 10:153-178
50. Keupp H, Versteegh G (1989) Ein neues systematisches Konzept für kalkige Dinoflagellaten-Zysten der Subfamilie Orthopithonelloideae Keupp 1987. Berliner Geowiss Abh (A) 106:207-219
51. Keupp H, Monnet B, Kohring R (1991) Morphotaxa bei kalkigen Dinoflagellaten-Zysten und ihre problematische Systematisierung. Berliner Geowiss Abh (A) 134:161-185
52. Kienel U (1994) Die Entwicklung der kalkigen Nannofossilien und der kalkigen Dinoflagellaten-Zysten an der Kreide/ Tertiär-Grenze in Westbrandenburg im Vergleich mit Profilen in Nordjütland und Seeland (DK). Berliner Geowiss Abh (E) 12:1-87
53. Kohring R (1993) Kalkdinoflagellaten aus dem Mittel- und Obereozän von Jutland (Dänemark) und dem Pariser Becken (Frankreich) im Vergleich mit anderen Tertiär-Vorkommen. Berliner geowiss Abh (E) 6:1-164
54. Krasheninnikov VA, Basov IA (1983) Cretaceous calcispherulids of the Falkland Plateau, Leg 71, Deep Sea Drilling Project. DSDPInit Rep 71:977-997
55. Kumar N, Gamboa LAP (1979) Evolution of the Sao Paulo Plateau (southeastern Brazilian margin): implications for the early history of the South Atlantic. Geol Soc Am Bull 90:281-293
56. Lazarus D, Caulet JP (1993) Cenozoic Southern Ocean reconstructions from sedimentologic, Radiolarian, and other microfossil data. In: Kennet! JP, Warnke DA (eds) The Antarctic paleoenvironment: a perspective on global change. Antarctic Res Ser 60:145-174
57. Lentin JK, Williams GL (1985) Fossil dinoflagellates: index to genera and species, 1985 edn. Can Tech Rep Hydrogr Ocean Sci 60: 1-449
58. Lentin JK, Williams GL (1993) Fossil dinoflagellates: index to genera and species, 1993 edn. Am Assoc Stratigr Palynol Contr Ser 28:1-856
59. Lohmann H (1920) Die Bevölkerung des Ozeans mit Plankton. Nach den Ergebnissen der Zentrifugenfänge während der Ausreise der "Deutschland" 1911. Arch Biontol 4:1-617
60. MacLeod N, Rawson PF, Forey PL, Banner FT, Boudagher-Fadel MK, Bown PR, Burnett JA, Chambers P, Culver S, Evans SE, Jefferey C, Kaminski MA, Lord AR, Milner AC, Milner AR, Morris N, Owen E, Rosen BR, Smith AB, Taylor PD, Urquhart E, Young JR (1997) The Cretaceous-Tertiary biotic transition. J Geol Soc Lond 154:265-292
61. MacRae RA, Fensome RA, Williams GL (1996) Fossil dinoflagellate diversity, originations, and extinctions and their significance. Can J Bot 74:1687-1694
62. Mai H, Salis Perch-Nielsen K von, Willems H (1997) Fossil coccospheres from the K/T boundary section from Geulhemmerberg, The Netherlands. Micropaleontology 43:281-302
63. McCoy FW, Zimmerman HB (1977) A history of sediment lithofacies in the South Atlantic Ocean. DSDP Init Rep 39:1047-1079
64. Martini E (1971) Standard Tertiary and Quaternary calcareous nannoplankton zonation. In: Farinacci A (ed) Proc Second Planktonic Conf Roma, 1970, Tecnoscienzia, pp 739-785
65. Miller KG, Janecek TR, Katz ME, Keil DJ (1987) Abyssal circulation and benthic foraminiferal changes near the Paleocene/ Eocene boundary. Paleoceanography 2:741-761
66. Montresor M, Janofske D, Willems H (1997) The cyst-theca relationship in Calciodinellum operosum emend. (Peridiniales, Dinophyceae) and a new approach for the study of calcareous cysts. JPhycol 33:122-131
67. Miiller-Merz E, Oberhänsli H (1991) Eocene bathyal and abyssal benthic foraminifera from a South Atlantic transect at 20-30°S. Palaeogeogr Palaeoclimatol Palaeoecol 83:117-171
68. Oberhänsli H (1996) Klimatische und ozeanographische Veränderungen im Eozän. Z Dtsch Geol Ges 147:303-412
69. Pflaumann U, Krasheninnikov VA (1978) Cretaceous calcisphaerulids from DSDP Leg 41, eastern North Atlantic. DSDP Init Rep 41:817-839
70. Roth PH (1978) Cretaceous nannoplankton biostratigraphy and oceanography of the northwestern Atlantic Ocean. DSDP Init Rep 44:731-759
71. Schiller J (1930) Coccolithineae. In: Dr. L. Rabenhorst's Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Osterreich und der Schweiz. Zehnter Band. Flagellatae. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig, pp 89-273
72. Shackleton N, Boersma A (1981) The climate of the Eocene ocean. J Geol Soc Lond 138:153-157
73. Shipboard Scientific Party (1977) In: Supko PR, Perch-Nielsen K, Neprochnov YP, Zimmerman HB, McCoy F, Kumar N, Thiede J, Bonatti E, Fodor R, Boersma A, Dinkelman MG, Carlson RL (eds) DSDP Init Rep 39:1-1139
74. Stradner H (1961) Vorkommen von Nannofossilien im Mesozoikum und Alttertiär. Erdöl-Z Wien 3:1-12
75. Tangen K, Brand LE, Blackwelder PL, Guillard RRL (1982) Thoracosphaera heimii (Lohmann) Kamptner is a dinophyte: observations on its morphology and life cycle. Mar Micropaleontol 7:193-212
76. Thierstein HR (1981) Late Cretaceous nannoplankton and the change at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary. In: Warme JE, Douglas RG, Winterer EL (eds) The Deep Sea Drilling Project: a decade of progress. SEPM Spec Pub 32:355-394
77. Thierstein HR (1982) Terminal Cretaceous plankton extinctions: a critical assessment. Geol Soc Am Spec Pap 190:385-399
78. Thomas E, Shackleton NJ (1996) The Paleocene-Eocene benthic foraminiferal extinction and stable isotope anomalies. In: Knox RWO'B, Corfield RM, Dunay RE (eds) Correlation of the Early Paleogene in Northwest Europe. Geol Soc Lond SpecPubl 101:401-441
79. Thompson EI, Schmilz B (1997) Barium and the late Paleocene o°C maximum: evidence of increased marine surface productivity. Paleoceanography 12:239-254
80. van Andel TH, Thiede J, Sclater JG, Hay WW (1977) Depositional history of the South Atlantic Ocean during the last 125 million years. J Geol 85:651-698
81. Verbeek JW (1977) Calcareous nannoplankton biostratigraphy of Middle and Upper Cretaceous deposits in Tunisia, southern Spain and France. Utrecht Micropaleontol Bull 16:1-157
82. Villain J-M (1981) Les Calcisphaerulidae: intérêt stratigraphique et paléoécologique. Cret Res 2:435-438
83. Wefer G, Berger WH, Siedler G, Webb DJ (1996) The South Atlantic. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York
84. Weiler H (1990) Calcisphaeren aus den oligozänen Schichten des Mainzer Beckens und des Oberrheingrabens. Mainzer Geowiss Mitt 19:9-48
85. Willems H (1988) Kalkige Dinoflagellaten-Zysten aus der oberkretazischen Schreibkreide-Fazies N-Deutschlands (Coniac bis Maastricht). Senckenb Lethaea 68:433-477
86. Willems H (1996) Calcareous dinocysts from the Geulhemmerberg K/T boundary section (Limburg, SE Netherlands). Geol Mijnb 75:215-231
87. Williams GL, Lentin JK, Fensome RA (1998) The Lentin and Williams index of fossil dinoflagellates, 1998 edn. Am Assoc Stratigr Palynologists Contr Ser 34:1-817
88. Young JR, Bergen JA, Bown PR, Burnett JA, Fiorentino A, Jordan RW, Kleijne A, van Niel BE, Romein AJT, Salis K von (1997) Guidelines for coccolith and calcareous nannofossil terminology. Palaeontology 40:875-912
89. Zachos JC, Stott LD, Lohmann KC (1994) Evolution of early Cenozoic marine temperatures. Paleoceanography 9:353-387
90. Zonneveld KAF, Höll C, Janofske D, Karwath B, Kerntopf B, Rühlemann C, Willems H (in press) Calcareous dinoflagellate cysts as palaeo-environmental tools. In: Fischer G, Wefer G (eds) Use of proxies in paleoceanography: examples from the South Atlantic. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York
91. Zügel P (1994) Verbreitung kalkiger Dinoflagellaten-Zysten im Cenoman/Turon von Westfrankreich und Norddeutschland. Cour Forsch-Inst Senckenberg 176:1-159