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Terrestrial carbon isotope stratigraphy and mammal turnover during post-PETM hyperthermals in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, USA
Sarah J. Widlansky
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Department of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
Ross Secord
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USA
Kathryn E. Snell
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Amy E. Chew
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
William C. Clyde
Department of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824, USA
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Short summary
New stable isotope records from pedogenic carbonates through the ETM2, H2, and possibly I1 hyperthermals from the Bighorn Basin highlight significant spatial variability in the preservation and magnitude of these global climate events in paleosol records. These data also provide important climate context for the extensive early Eocene mammal fossil record from the southern Bighorn Basin and support previous hypotheses that pulses in mammal turnover corresponded to the ETM2 and H2 hyperthermals.
New stable isotope records from pedogenic carbonates through the ETM2, H2, and possibly I1...
