Kamikuri, Shin-Ichi; Wade, Bridget S (2012): Radiolarian chronology and fauna across the middle/late Eocene boundary at ODP Hole 171-1052A [dataset publication series]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.811220, Supplement to: Kamikuri, S-I; Wade, BS (2012): Radiolarian magnetobiochronology and faunal turnover across the middle/late Eocene boundary at Ocean Drilling Program Site 1052 in the western North Atlantic Ocean. Marine Micropaleontology, 88-89, 41-53, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marmicro.2012.03.001
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Abstract:
Quantitative radiolarian assemblage analysis has been conducted on middle and upper Eocene sediments (Zones RP16 to RP18) from Ocean Drilling Program Site 1052 in order to establish the radiolarian magnetobiochronology and determine the nature of the faunal turnover across the middle/late Eocene boundary in the western North Atlantic Ocean. We recognize and calibrate forty-five radiolarian bioevents to the magneto- and cyclo-stratigraphy from Site 1052 to enhance the biochronologic resolution for the middle and late Eocene. Our data is compared to sites in the equatorial Pacific (Leg 199) to access the diachrony of biostratigraphic events. Eleven bioevents are good biostratigraphic markers for tropical/subtropical locations (south of 30°N). The primary markers (lowest occurrences of Cryptocarpium azyx and Calocyclas bandyca) which are tropical zonal boundary markers for Zones RP17 and RP18 provide robust biohorizons for correlation and age determination from the low to middle latitudes and between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Some other radiolarian bioevents are highly diachronous (<1 million years) between oceanic basins.
A significant faunal turnover of radiolarians is recognized within Chron C17n.3n (37.7 Ma) where 13 radiolarian species disappear rapidly in less than 100 kyr and 4 new species originate. The radiolarian faunal turnover coincides with a major extinction in planktonic foraminifera. We name the turnover phase, the Middle/Late Eocene Turnover (MLET). Assemblage analysis reveals the MLET to be associated with a decrease in low-mid latitude taxa and increase in cosmopolitan taxa and radiolarian accumulation rates. The MLET might be related to increased biological productivity rather than to surface-water cooling.
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Ocean Drilling Program (ODP)
Coverage:
Latitude: 29.951500 * Longitude: -76.626580
Date/Time Start: 1997-01-30T15:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1997-01-30T15:00:00
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171-1052A * Latitude: 29.951500 * Longitude: -76.626580 * Date/Time: 1997-01-30T15:00:00 * Elevation: -1344.5 m * Penetration: 174.5 m * Recovery: 159.63 m * Location: Blake Nose, North Atlantic Ocean * Campaign: Leg171B * Basis: Joides Resolution * Method/Device: Drilling/drill rig (DRILL) * Comment: 21 core; 174.5 m cored; 0 m drilled; 91.5 % recovery
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- Kamikuri, S-I; Wade, BS (2012): (Table 1) Biostratigraphic datum levels at ODP Hole 171-1052A compared with equatorial Pacific events. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.811219
- Kamikuri, S-I; Wade, BS (2012): (Appendix) Radiolarian abundances in ODP Hole 171-1052A. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.811217