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https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-981-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-12-981-2016
Research article
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15 Apr 2016
Research article |  | 15 Apr 2016

Major perturbations in the global carbon cycle and photosymbiont-bearing planktic foraminifera during the early Eocene

Valeria Luciani, Gerald R. Dickens, Jan Backman, Eliana Fornaciari, Luca Giusberti, Claudia Agnini, and Roberta D'Onofrio

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The symbiont-bearing planktic foraminiferal genera Morozovella and Acarinina were among the most important calcifiers of the early Paleogene tropical and subtropical oceans. However, a remarkable and permanent switch in the relative abundance of these genera happened in the early Eocene. We show that this switch occurred at low-latitude sites near the start of the Early Eocene Climatic Optimum (EECO), a multi-million-year interval when Earth surface temperatures reached their Cenozoic maximum.