Volume 105/1 (2012)

Wagreich, M., Egger, H. and Piller, W.E., (eds.), 2012:
Editorial: Climate and Biota of the Early Paleogene. Proceedings of CBEP 2011 Salzburg, Austria.


Robert P. SPEIJER, Christian SCHEIBNER, Peter STASSEN & Abdel-Mohsen M. MORSI:

Response of marine ecosystems to deep-time global warming: a synthesis of biotic patterns across the Paleocene-Eocene thermal
maximum (PETM)
Keywords: Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum, marine ecosystems, global warming, extinction, migration, evolution


Jerry J. HOOKER & Margaret E. COLLINSON:

Mammalian faunal turnover across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary in NW Europe: the roles of displacement, community evolution
and environment

Keywords: Ecological diversity, plant fossils, understorey, extinction, predation


Marie-Pierre AUBRY, Olga RODRIGUEZ, David BORD, Linda GODFREY, Birger SCHMITZ & Robert W.O’B. KNOX:

The First Radiation of the Fasciculiths: Morphologic adaptations of the coccolithophores to oligotrophy

Keywords: first radiation of fasciculiths, Neo-Duwi Event, hyperthermal, oligotrophy


Fred RÖGL & Hans EGGER:
A revision of lower Paleogene planktonic foraminifera described by K.H.A. Gohrbandt from the Northwestern Tethyan realm (Helvetic
nappe system, Salzburg, Austria)

Keywords: calcareous plankton biostratigraphy, planktonic foraminifera, taxonomy, Northwestern Tethys, Paleocene, Eocene


Mikhail A. AKHMETIEV, Nina I. ZAPOROZHETS, Vladimir N. BENYAMOVSKIY, Galina N. ALEKSANDROVA, Alina I.
IAKOVLEVA & Tatiana V. ORESHKINA:

The Paleogene history of the Western Siberian seaway – a connection of the Peri-Tethys to the Arctic ocean

Keywords: West-Siberian sea, Central Eurasia, Azolla beds, Peri-Tethys, Paleocene, microbiota, Eocene, Tethys, Arctic


Yuri B. GLADENKOV:
North Pacific molluscan assemblages and paleogeography in the early Paleogene

Keywords: North Pacific, paratropical, Kamchatka, Paleogene, migrations, provinces


Andrey Yu. GLADENKOV:
Middle Eocene diatoms from the marine Paleogene stratigraphic key section of northeast Kamchatka

Keywords: middle Eocene, fossil diatoms, North Pacific, Кamchatka


André BORNEMANN, Claudius M. PIRKENSEER, Etienne STEURBAUT, Robert P. SPEIJER:
Early Paleogene δ13C and δ18O records based on marine ostracodes: implications for the upper Danian succession at Sidi Nasseur
(Tunisia) and their application value in paleoceanography (supplementary data)

Keywords: marine ostracodes, stable isotopes, hyperthermals, Paleogene


Walter RIEGEL, Volker WILDE & Olaf K. LENZ:

The Early Eocene of Schöningen (N-Germany) – an interim report
Keywords: Apectodinium acme, fire regime, palynology, mangrove, Eocene, climate


Edwin ZEELMAEKERS, Noël VANDENBERGHE & Jan ŚRODOŃ:

Presence of bentonite beds in the earliest Eocene Tienen Formation in Belgium as evidenced by clay mineralogical analyses

Keywords: North Sea Basin, earliest Eocene, Bentonite, Belgium


Vladimir N. BENYAMOVSKIY:

A high resolution Lutetian-Bartonian planktonic foraminiferal zonation in the Crimean-Caucasus region of the northeastern Peri-Tethys

Keywords: Crimean-Caucasian region, planktonic foraminifera, paleoenvironment, Middle Eocene, phylogeny, zonation


György LESS & Ercan ÖZCAN:
Bartonian-Priabonian larger benthic foraminiferal events in the Western Tethys

Keywords: larger benthic foraminifera, extinction, Eocene, Tethys


WeiQiu LIU, XiaoYan LIU, DaFang CUI & JianHua JIN:
An additional record of Craigia-fruits (Malvaceae s.l.) from the Eocene of Hainan Island, south China

Keywords: Changchang Basin, Hainan Island, South China, Craigia, Eocene


Tatiana V. ORESHKINA:
Evidence of Late Paleocene - Early Eocene hyperthermal events in biosiliceous sediments of Western Siberia and adjacent areas

Keywords: Western Siberia, silicoflagellates, Paleocene, diatoms, Eocene


Peter STASSEN, Etienne STEURBAUT, Abdel-Mohsen M. MORSI, Peter SCHULTE & Robert P. SPEIJER:
Biotic impact of Eocene thermal maximum 2 in a shelf setting (Dababiya, Egypt)

Keywords: Eocene thermal maximum 2, carbon isotopes, hyperthermal, foraminifera, ostracodes, Egypt


William A. BERGGREN, Laia ALEGRET, Marie-Pierre AUBRY, Ben S. CRAMER, Christian DUPUIS, Sijn GOOLAERTS,
Dennis V. KENT, Christopher KING, Robert W. O’B. KNOX, Nageh OBAIDALLA, Silvia ORTIZ, Khaled A. K. OUDA,
Ayman ABDEL-SABOUR, Rehab SALEM, Mahmoud M. SENOSY, Mamdouh F. SOLIMAN & Ali SOLIMAN:

The Dababiya corehole, Upper Nile Valley, Egypt: Preliminary results

Keywords: Dakhla and Esna Shale Formations, Upper Cretaceous and Paleocene, Dababiya Quarry, Tarawan Chalk, stratigraphy


Peter STASSEN, Ellen THOMAS & Robert P. SPEIJER:

The progression of environmental changes during the onset of the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (New Jersey Coastal Plain)
Keywords: sedimentation rate, Foraminifera, Wilson Lake, New Jersey, low oxygen, Bass River, PETM, onset


Simon D’HAENENS, André BORNEMANN, Kaat ROOSE, Philippe CLAEYS & Robert P. SPEIJER:

Stable isotope paleoecology (δ13C and δ18O) of early Eocene Zeauvigerina aegyptiaca from the North Atlantic (DSDP Site 401)

Keywords: Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, biserial planktic foraminifera, ecological opportunism, depth habitat, ontogeny


Laura J. COTTON & Paul N. PEARSON:

Larger benthic foraminifera from the Middle Eocene to Oligocene of Tanzania

Keywords: larger foraminifera, Oligocene, Tanzania, Eocene, MECO


Daan VANHOVE, Peter STASSEN, Robert P. SPEIJER, Philippe CLAEYS & Etienne STEURBAUT:
Intra- and intertaxon stable O and C isotope variability of fossil fish otoliths: an early Eocene test case

Keywords: early Eocene climatic optimum, paleotemperature, North Sea Basin, shallow marine, stable isotope, fish otolith


Katica DROBNE, Miloš BARTOL, Vlasta PREMEC-FUĆEK, Bettina SCHENK, Vlasta ĆOSOVIĆ & Nevio PUGLIESE:
Microfauna and nannoplankton below the Paleocene/Eocene transition in hemipelagic sediments at the southern slope of Mt. Nanos
(NW part of the Paleogene Adriatic carbonate platform, Slovenia)

Keywords: Paleogene Adriatic carbonate platform, nannoplankton, microfauna, Paleocene, Neotethys


Christa-Ch. HOFMANN, Richard PANCOST, Franz OTTNER, Hans EGGER, Kyle TAYLOR, Omar MOHAMED & Reinhard ZETTER:
Palynology, biomarker assemblages and clay mineralogy of the Early Eocene Climate Optimum (EECO) in the transgressive
Krappfeld succession (Eastern Alps, Austria)

Keywords: northwestern Tethys, Clay mineralogy, Eastern Alps, Early Eocene, Palynology, Tex


Marek CIESZKOWSKI, Jan GOLONKA & Anna WAŚKOWSKA:
An olistolith interpretation for the Paleocene Szydłowiec sandstones in the stratotype area (Outer Carpathians, Poland)

Keywords: Szydłowiec sandstones, Subsilesian Unit, coralline algae, Paleocene, olistolith