A paleoecological and paleobiogeographic evaluation of Helicosphaera inversa (Gartner) Theodoridis and the diachrony of its First Occurrence

Marine Micropaleontology

Volumn 104, Issue , 2013, Pages 14-24

  Maiorano, Patrizia ^a   Tarantino, Francesca ^a   Marino, Maria ^a   Girone, Angela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Biostratigraphy; Calcareous nannofossils; Helicosphaera inversa; Paleobiogeography; Paleoecology; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DIADROMY; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; LATITUDE; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; OCEAN; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOECOLOGY; PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA; PLEISTOCENE; SALINITY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; SURFACE WATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84884802323     PISSN: 03778398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2013.08.001     Document Type: Article

References (73)

1. Amore F.O., Flores J.A., Voelker A.H.L., Lebreiro S.M., Palumbo E., Sierro F.J. A Middle Pleistocene Northeast Atlantic coccolithophore record: paleoclimatology and paleoproductivity aspects. Mar. Micropaleontol. 2012, 90-91:44-59.
2. Backman J., Shackleton N.J. Quantitative biochronology of Pliocene and Pleistocene calcareous nannofossils from the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific oceans. Mar. Micropaleontol. 1983, 8:141-170.
3. Bé A.W.H. An ecological, zoogeographic and taxonomic review of recent planktonic foraminifera. Oceanic Micropaleontology 1977, 1:1-100. Academic Press, London. A.T.S. Ramsay (Ed.).
4. Bé A.W.H., Tolderlund D.S. Distribution and ecology of living planktonic foraminifera in surface waters of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The Micropaleontology of Oceans 1971, 105-149. Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge. B.M. Funnell, W.R. Riedel (Eds.).
5. Berggren W.A., Kent D.V., van Couvering J.A. Neogene geochronology and chronostratigraphy. London, Geological Society of London Memoir 1985, 10:211-260. N.J. Snelling (Ed.).
6. Berggren W.A., Hilgen F.J., Langereis C.G., Kent D.V., Obradovich J.D., Raffi I., Raymo M., Shackleton N.J. Late Neogene (Pliocene-Pleistocene) chronology: new perspectives in high resolution stratigraphy. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 1995, 107:1272-1287.
7. Bown P.R., Young J.R. Chapter 2: techniques. Calcareous Nannofossil Biostratigraphy 1998, 16-28. Kluwer Academic Publishing, Dordrecht. P.R. Bown (Ed.).
8. Castradori D. Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy and biochronology in the eastern Mediterranean deep-sea cores. Riv. Ital. Paleontol. Stratigr. 1993, 99:107-126.
9. Chiyonobu S., Sato T., Narikiyo R., Yamasaki M. Floral changes in calcareous nannofossils and their paleoceanographic significance in the equatorial Pacific Ocean during the last 500,000years. Island Arc 2006, 15:476-482.
10. de Abreu L., Abrantes F.F., Shackleton N.J., Tzedakis P.C., McManus J.F., Oppo D.W., Hall M.A. Ocean climate variability in the eastern North Atlantic during interglacial marine isotope stage 11: a partial analogue to the Holocene?. Paleoceanography 2005, 20:PA3009.
11. Di Stefano E. Calcareous nannofossil quantitative biostratigraphy of Holes 969E and 963B (eastern Mediterranean). Scientific Results 1998, 160:99-112. Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX. A.H.F. Robertson, K.-C. Emeis, C. Richter, A. Camerlenghi (Eds.).
12. Droxler A.W., Farrell J.W. Marine isotope stage 11 (MIS 11): new insights for a warm future. Global Planet. Change 2000, 24(1):1-5.
13. Flores J.-A., Sierro F.J. Revised technique for calculation of calcareous nannofossil accumulation rates. Micropaleontology 1997, 43(3):321-324.
14. Flores J.A., Gersonde R., Sierro F.J., Niebler H.S. Southern Ocean Pleistocene calcareous nannofossil events: calibration with isotope and geomagnetic stratigraphies. Mar. Micropaleontol. 2000, 40:377-402.
15. Gartner S. Absolute chronology of the late Neogene calcareous nannofossil succession in the equatorial Pacific. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 1973, 84:2021-2034.
16. Gartner S. Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy and revised zonation of the Pleistocene. Mar. Micropaleontol. 1977, 2:1-25.
17. Gartner S. Validation of Helicopontosphaera inversa. Newsletter of the International Nannoplankton Association 1980, 2(1):35.
18. Hagino K., Kulhanek D.K. Data report: calcareous nannofossils from upper Pliocene and Pleistocene, Expedition 306 Sites U1313 and U1314. Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, 303/306, College Station, TX 2009, 10.2204/iodp.proc.303306.206.2009. J.E.T. Channell, T. Kanamatsu, T. Sato, R. Stein, C.A. Alvarez Zarikian, M.J. Malone, Expedition 303/306 Scientists (Eds.).
19. Hemleben C., Spindler M., Anderson O.R. Modern Planktonic Foraminifera 1989, Springer-Verlag, New York.
20. Hine N., Weaver P.P.E. Quaternary. British Micropalaeontolological Society Publication Series 1998, 266-283. P.R. Bown (Ed.).
21. Hodell D.A., Charles C.D., Ninnemann U.S. Comparison of interglacial stages in the South Atlantic sector of the southern ocean for the past 450kyr: implications for marine isotope stage (MIS) 11. Global Planet. Change 2000, 24:7-26.
22. Howard W.R. A warm future in the past. Nature 1997, 388:418-419.
23. Kameo K., Bralower T. Neogene calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of Sites 998, 999 and 1000, Caribbean Sea. Scientific Results 2000, 165:3-17. Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX. R.M. Leckie, H. Sigurdsson, G.D. Acton, G. Draper (Eds.).
24. Kameo K., Okada M., El-Marsry M., Hisamitsu T., Saito S., Nakazato H., Ohkouchi N., Ikehara M., Yasuda H., Kitazato H., Taira A. Age model, physical properties and paleoceanographic implications of the middle Pleistocene core sediments in the Choshi area, central Japan. Island Arc 2006, 15:366-377.
25. Kandiano E.S., Bauch H.A., Fahl K., Helmke J.P., Röhl U., Pérez-Folgado M., Cacho I. The meridional temperature gradient in the eastern North Atlantic during MIS 11 and its link to the ocean-atmosphere system. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 2012, 333-334:24-39.
26. 18O records. Paleoceanography 2005, 20:PA 1003.
27. 18O, tephra, calcareous nannofossil, and geomagnetic reversal chronologies of the past 1.1 Myr. Paleoceanography 2004, 19:PA3010.
28. Lourens L.J., Hilgen F.J., Raffi I., Vergnaud-Grazzini C. Early Pleistocene chronology of the Vrica section (Calabria, Italia). Paleoceanography 1996, 11:797-812.
29. Lourens L.J., Hilgen F.J., Raffi I. Base of large Gephyrocapsa and astronomical calibration of early Pleistocene sapropels in ODP 967 and 969: solving the chronology of the Vrica section. Scientific Results 1998, 160:191-197. Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX. A.H.F. Robertson, K.C. Emeis, C. Richter, A. Camerlenghi (Eds.).
30. Lourens L., Hilgen F., Shackleton N.J., Laskar J., Wilson D. The Neogene Period. A Geological Time Scale 2004, 409-440. Cambridge University Press. F.M. Gradstein, J.G. Ogg, A.G. Smith (Eds.).
31. Maiorano P., Marino M. Calcareous nannofossil bioevents and environmental control on temporal and spatial patterns at the early-middle Pleistocene. Mar. Micropaleontol. 2004, 53:405-422.
32. Maiorano P., Marino M., Di Stefano E., Ciaranfi N. Calcareous nannofossil events in the Lower-Middle Pleistocene transition at the Montalbano Jonico Section and ODP Site 964: calibration with isotope and sapropel stratigraphy. Riv. Ital. Paleontol. Stratigr. 2004, 110(2):547-557.
33. Maiorano P., Capotondi L., Ciaranfi N., Girone A., Lirer F., Marino M., Pelosi N., Petrosino P., Piscitelli A. Vrica-Crotone and Montalbano Jonico sections: a potential unit-stratotype of the Calabrian Stage. Episodes 2010, 33(4):218-233.
34. Maiorano P., Tarantino F., Marino M., De Lange G.J. Paleoenvironmental conditions at Core KC01B (Ionian Sea) through MIS 13-9: evidence from calcareous nannofossil assemblages. Quat. Int. 2013, 288:97-111.
35. Marino M., Maiorano P., Monechi S. Quantitative Pleistocene calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of leg 86, Site 577 (Shatsky Rise, NW Pacific Ocean). J. Nannoplankton Res. 2003, 25(1):25-37.
36. Marino M., Maiorano P., Lirer F. Changes in calcareous nannofossil assemblages during the Mid-Pleistocene Revolution. Mar. Micropaleontol. 2008, 69:70-90.
37. Marino M., Maiorano P., Flower B.P. Calcareous nannofossil changes during the Mid-Pleistocene Revolution: paleoecologic and paleoceanographic evidence from North Atlantic Site 980/981. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 2011, 306:58-69.
38. Martini E. Standard Tertiary and Quaternary calcareous nannoplankton zonation. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Planktonic Microfossils Roma 1971, 2:739-785. Ed. Tecnoscienza, Rome. A. Farinacci (Ed.).
39. Matsuoka H., Okada H. Quantitative analysis of Quaternary nannoplankton in the subtropical northwestern Pacific Ocean. Mar. Micropaleontol. 1989, 14:97-118.
40. McIntyre A., Bè A.H.W. Modern coccolithophores of the Atlantic Ocean - I. Placolith and cyrtoliths. Deep-Sea Res. 1967, 14:561-597.
41. McManus J., Oppo D.W., Cullen J.L. A 0.5million-year record of millennial-scale climate variability in the N. Atlantic. Science 1999, 283:971-975.
42. Naafs B.D.A., Hefter J., Ferretti P., Stein R., Haug G.H. Sea surface temperatures did not control the first occurrence of Hudson Strait Heinrich Events during MIS 16. Paleoceanography 2011, 26:PA4201.
43. Okada H., Honjo S. The distribution of oceanic coccolithophores in the Pacific. Deep-Sea Res. 1973, 20:355-374.
44. Oppo D.W., McManus J.F., Cullen J.L. Abrupt climate events 500,000 to 340,000years ago: evidence from subpolar North Atlantic sediments. Science 1998, 279:1335-1338.
45. Peliz A., Dubert J., Santos A.M.P., Oliveira P.B., Le Cann B. Winter upper ocean circulation in the Western Iberian Basin - Fronts, Eddies and Poleward Flows: an overview. Deep Sea Res. Part I 2005, 52:621-646.
46. Pierre C., Belanger P., Saliège J.F., Urrutianguer M.J., Murat A. Paleoceanography of the western Mediterranean during the Pleistocene: oxygen and carbon isotope records at Site 975. Scientific Results 1999, 161:481-488. Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX. R. Zahn, M.C. Comas, A. Klaus (Eds.).
47. Raffi I. Revision of the early-middle Pleistocene calcareous nannofossil biochronology (1.75-0.85Ma). Mar. Micropaleontol. 2002, 45:25-55.
48. Raffi I., Rio D. Calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of DSDP Site 132, Leg 13 (Tyrrhenian Sea, Western Mediterranean). Riv. Ital. Paleontol. Stratigr. 1979, 85:127-172.
49. Raffi I., Backman J., Rio D., Shackleton N.J. Plio-Pleistocene nannofossil biostratigraphy and calibration to oxygen isotope stratigraphies from Deep Sea Drilling Project Site 607 and Ocean Drilling Program Site 677. Paleoceanography 1993, 8:387-408.
50. Raffi I., Backman J., Fornaciari E., Pälike H., Rio D., Lourens L., Hilgen F. A review of calcareous nannofossil astrobiochronology encompassing the past 25million years. Quat. Sci. Rev. 2006, 25:3113-3137.
51. Rio D. The fossil distribution of Coccolithophore genus Gephyrocapsa Kamptner and related Plio-Pleistocene chronostratigraphic problems. Initial Reports Deep Sea Drilling Project, 68 1982, 325-343. US Govt. Printing Office, Washington. W.L. Prell, J.V. Gardner (Eds.).
52. Rio D., Raffi I., Villa G. Pliocene-Pleistocene calcareous nannofossil distribution patterns in the western Mediterranean. Scientific Results 1990, 107:513-533. Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX. K.A. Kastens, J. Mascle (Eds.).
53. Rogerson M., Cacho I., Jimenez-Espejo F., Reguera M.I., Sierro F.J., Martinez-Ruiz F., Frigola J., Canals M. A dynamic explanation for the origin of the western Mediterranean organic-rich layers. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 2008, 9:Q07U01.
54. Rohling E.J. Review and new aspects concerning the formation of eastern Mediterranean sapropels. Mar. Geol. 1994, 122:1-28.
55. Rossignol-Strick M. African monsoons, an immediate climate response to orbital insolation. Nature 1983, 304:46-49.
56. Rossignol-Strick M. Mediterranean Quaternary sapropels, an immediate response of the African monsoon to variations of insolation. Palaeogeogr. Palaeoclimatol. Palaeoecol. 1985, 49:237-263.
57. Rossignol-Strick M., Paterne M., Bassinot F., Emeis K.-C., De Lange G.J. An unusual mid-Pleistocene monsoon period over Africa and Asia. Nature 1998, 392:269-272.
58. Sanvoisin R., D'Onofrio S., Lucchi R., Violanti D., Castradori D. 1Ma paleoclimatic record from the eastern Mediterranean-Marflux project: first result of a micropaleontological and sedimentological investigation of a long piston core from the Calabrian Ridge. Il Quaternario 1993, 2:169-188.
59. Sato T., Kameo K. Pliocene to Quaternary calcareous nannofossil biostratigraphy of the Arctic Ocean, with reference to late Pliocene Glaciation. Scientific Results 1996, 151:39-59. Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX. J. Thiede, A.M. Myhre, J.V. Firth, G.L. Johnson, W.F. Ruddiman (Eds.).
60. Sato T., Kameo K., Takayama T. Coccolith biostratigraphy of the Arabian Sea. Scientific Results 1991, 117:37-54. Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX. W.L. Prell, N. Niitsuma (Eds.).
61. Sato T., Kameo K., Mita I. Validity of the latest Cenozoic calcareous nannofossil datums and its application to the tephrochronology. Earth Sci. Mon. (Gekkan Chikyu Kagaku) 1999, 53:265-274.
62. Sato T., Chiyonobu S., Hodell D.A. Data report: Quaternary calcareous nannofossil datums and biochronology in the North Atlantic Ocean, IODP Site U1308. Proceedings of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, 303/306, College Station, TX 2009, 10.2204/iodp.proc.303306.210.2009. J.E.T. Channell, T. Kanamatsu, T. Sato, R. Stein, C.A. Alvarez Zarikian, M.J. Malone, Expedition 303/306 Scientists (Eds.).
63. Schiebel R., Zeltner A., Treppke U.F., Waniek J.J., Bollmann J., Rixen T., Hemleben C. Distribution of diatoms, coccolithophores and planktic foraminifers along a trophic gradient during SW monsoon in the Arabian Sea. Mar. Micropaleontol. 2004, 51:345-371.
64. Shipboard Scientific Party Site 975. Initial Reports 1996, 161:113-177. Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX. M.C. Comas, R. Zahn, A. Klaus (Eds.).
65. Spaulding S. Neogene nannofossil biostratigraphy of Sites 723 through 730, Oman continental margin, northwestern Arabian Sea. Scientific Results 1991, 117:5-36. Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX. W.L. Prell, N. Niitsuma (Eds.).
66. Sprovieri R. Pliocene-early Pleistocene astronomically forced planktonic foraminifera abundance fluctuations and chronology of Mediterranean calcareous plankton bio-events. Riv. Ital. Paleontol. Stratigr. 1993, 99:371-414.
67. Sprovieri R., Di Stefano E., Howell M., Sakamoto T., Di Stefano A., Marino M. Integrated calcareous plankton biostratigraphy and cyclostratigraphy at Site 964. Scientific Results 1998, 160:155-165. Ocean Drilling Program, College Station, TX. A.H.F. Robertson, K.C. Emeis, C. Richter, A. Camerlenghi (Eds.).
68. Stein R., Hefter J., Grützner J., Voelker A., Naafs B.D.A. Variability of surface-water characteristics and Heinrich like Events in the Pleistocene mid-latitude North Atlantic Ocean: biomarker and XRD records from IODP Site U1313 (MIS 16-9). Paleoceanography 2009, 24:PA2203.
69. Takayama T., Sato T. Coccolith biostratigraphy of the North Atlantic Ocean, Deep Sea Drilling Project Leg 94. Deep Sea Drilling Project 1987, vol. 94:651-702. U.S. Govt. Printing Office, Washington. W.E. Ruddiman, R.B. Kidd, E. Thomas (Eds.).
70. Theodoridis S. Calcareous nannofossil biozonation of the Miocene and revision of the Helicoliths and Discoasters. Utrecht Micropaleont. Bull. 1984, 32:1-271.
71. Vincent E., Berger W.H. Planktonic foraminifera and their use in paleoceanography. The Sea 1981, 1025-1119. Wiley-Interscience, New York. C. Emiliani (Ed.).
72. Voelker A.H.L., Rodrigues T., Billups K., Oppo D., McManus J., Stein R., Hefter J., Grimalt J.O. Variations in mid-latitude North Atlantic surface water properties during the mid-Brunhes (MIS 9-14) and their implications for the thermohaline circulation. Clim. Past 2010, 6:531-552.
73. Winter A., Jordan R.W., Roth P.H. Biogeography of living coccolithophores in ocean waters. Coccolithophores 1994, 161-178. Cambridge University Press, London. A. Winter, W.G. Siesser (Eds.).