PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY AND LATITUDINAL-CLIMATIC ZONING IN THE EARLY MAASTRICHTIAN BASED ON PLANKTONIC FORAMINIFERA IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE (PACIFIC OCEAN)

Authors

  • E. A. Sokolova Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29006/1564-2291.JOR-2025.53(1).4

Keywords:

thanatocenoses, Cretaceous era, water masses, Maastrichtian, difference in species composition of planktonic foraminifera, paleoclimate, paleolatitude, natural zonation, foraminifera, paleotemperature

Abstract

Core samples from eight deep-sea drilling holes were used to reconstruct the climatic conditions that existed during the Early Maastrichtian in the South Pacific. The study of the systematic composition of planktonic foraminifera made it possible to subdivide them into three groups and assign them to the Tethyan, intermediate and Austral types of thanatocenosis, respectively. Based on their territorial distribution, the position of climatic zones for sections of the beginning and end of the Early Maastrichtian has been established. Different climatic zones are characterized by different types of water masses. Throughout the entire age interval under consideration, two climatic zones existed in the South Pacific Ocean: Tethyan and intermediate. At the end of the Early Maastrichtian it became colder, an austral zone emerged in the area of the Lord Howe Rise, and the southern border of the Tethyan zone shifted towards the equator. The work examines the conditions for the development and formation of planktonic foraminiferal faunas in connection with changes in paleoclimate. In order to determine the zonal-latitudinal types of foraminiferal faunas, the differences and similarities of their complexes from different sections were assessed. According to the difference in species composition, planktonic foraminifera can be divided into regional neritic: Lordhow and Melanesian; and zonal-latitudinal: subtropical and tropical central oceanic faunas. The results obtained during the research are confirmed by our own and literature data of oxygen isotope analysis.

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