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Table of Contents - Special Paper 369

Causes and Consequences of Globally Warm Climates in the Early Paleogene

Edited by Scott L. Wing, Philip D. Gingerich, Birger Schmitz, and Ellen Thomas

Preface

Climate Mechanisms and Models
1. Marine-terrestrial linkages at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary
2. Excess barite accumulation during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: Massive input of dissolved barium from seafloor gas hydrate reservoirs
3. Early Paleogene oceans and climate: A fully coupled modeling approach using the NCAR CCSM
4. Carbon and oxygen isotope records from paleosols spanning the Paleocene-Eocene boundary, Bighorn Basin, Wyoming
5. Terrestrial climatic response to precessional orbital forcing in the Eocene
6. Estimating latest Cretaceous and Tertiary atmospheric CO2 from stomatal indices Marine Biotas, Environments, and Climate Change
7. Middle to upper Eocene dysoxic-anoxic Kuma Formation (northeast Peri-Tethys): Biostratigraphy and paleoenvironments
8. Late Paleocene-early Eocene dinoflagellate cyst records from the Tethys: Further observations on the global distribution of Apectodinium
9. Paleoproductivity of the northwestern Tethyan margin (Anthering Section, Austria) across the Paleocene-Eocene transition
10. Paleocene-Eocene boundary events in the northeastern Peri-Tethys
11. Diatom turnover in the early Paleogene diatomite of the Sengiley section, Middle Povolzhie, Russia: A response to the Initial Eocene Thermal Maximum?
12. Paleocene biota of the West Siberian plain
13. Basal Ilerdian (earliest Eocene) turnover of larger foraminifera: Age constraints based on calcareous plankton and d13C isotopic profiles from new southern Pyrenean sections (Spain)
14. Ecological development of acarininids (planktonic foraminifera) and hydrographic evolution of Paleocene surface waters
15. Early Paleogene transgressions: Stratigraphical and sedimentological evidence from the northern Peri-Tethys
16. A paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the early late Paleocene North Sea from intrashell d18O and d13C profiles of mollusks
17. Danian-Selandian sea-level change and biotic excursion on the southern Tethyan margin (Egypt)
18. Palynology, paleoenvironments, and organic carbon isotope evolution in lagoonal Paleocene-Eocene boundary settings in North Belgium
19. Extinction and food at the seafloor: A high-resolution benthic foraminiferal record across the Initial Eocene Thermal Maximum, Southern Ocean Site 690

Continental Biotas, Environments, and Climate Change
20. Cobham Lignite Bed and penecontemporaneous macrofloras of southern England: A record of vegetation and fire across the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
21. Terrestrial vegetation record across the initial Eocene thermal maximum at the Tawanui marine section, New Zealand
22. Plant communities and climate change in southeastern Australia during the early Paleogene
23. Geographic patterns in the floral response to Paleocene-Eocene warming
24. Paleogene West Antarctic climate and vegetation history in light of new data from King George Island
25. Status of plant megafossils during the early Paleogene in India
26. Floral change during the Initial Eocene Thermal Maximum in the Powder River Basin, Wyoming
27. Lacertilian faunal change across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary in Europe
28. Mammalian faunal turnover in the Eocene of central Europe
29. Mammalian responses to climate change at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary: Polecat Bench record in the northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming
30. Evidence for direct mammalian faunal interchange between Europe and Asia near the Paleocene-Eocene boundary
31. Rare taxa, biostratigraphy, and the Wasatchian-Bridgerian boundary in North America
32. Terrestrial mammals as biostratigraphic indicators in upper Paleocene-lower Eocene marine deposits of the southern North Sea Basin
33. Biostratigraphic, chemostratigraphic, and magnetostratigraphic study across the Paleocene-Eocene boundary in the Hengyang Basin, Hunan, China
34. Paleogene paleosols of Big Bend National Park, Texas

Integrated Stratigraphic Framework
35. Chronostratigraphic terminology at the Paleocene/Eocene boundary
36. Cyclostratigraphy of upper Paleocene and lower Eocene sediments at Blake Nose Site 1051 (western North Atlantic)