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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-4201-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-16-4201-2019
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07 Nov 2019
Research article |  | 07 Nov 2019

Phytoplankton community disruption caused by latest Cretaceous global warming

Johan Vellekoop, Lineke Woelders, Appy Sluijs, Kenneth G. Miller, and Robert P. Speijer

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Our micropaleontological analyses on three cores from New Jersey (USA) show that the late Maastrichtian warming event (66.4–66.1 Ma), characterized by a ~ 4.0 °C warming of sea waters on the New Jersey paleoshelf, resulted in a disruption of phytoplankton communities and a stressed benthic ecosystem. This increased ecosystem stress during the latest Maastrichtian potentially primed global ecosystems for the subsequent mass extinction following the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary impact.
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