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Table of Contents - Special Paper 424

Large Ecosystem Perturbations: Causes and Consequences

edited by Simonetta Monechi, Rodolfo Coccioni, and Michael Rampino

Preface v
1. Cenozoic mass extinctions in the deep sea: What perturbs the largest habitat on Earth?
Ellen Thomas		 1
2. A major Pliocene coccolithophore turnover: Change in morphological strategy in the photic zone
Marie-Pierre Aubry		 25
3. The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum in Egypt and Jordan: An overview of the planktic foraminiferal record
Elisa Guasti and Robert P. Speijer		 53
4. Calcareous nannofossil assemblages and their response to the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum event at different latitudes: ODP Site 690 and Tethyan sections
Eugenia Angori, Gilen Bernaola, and Simonetta Monechi		 69
5. A review of calcareous nannofossil changes during the early Aptian Oceanic Anoxic Event 1a and the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: The influence of fertility, temperature, and pCO2
Fabrizio Tremolada, Elisabetta Erba, and Timothy J. Bralower		 87
6. Ecosystem perturbation caused by a small Late Cretaceous marine impact, Gulf Coastal Plain, USA
David T. King Jr., Lucille W. Petruny, and Thornton L. Neathery		 97
7. Chemostratigraphy of Frasnian-Famennian transition: Possibility of methane hydrate dissociation leading to mass extinction
Mohammad Hossein Mahmudy Gharaie, Ryo Matsumoto, Grzegorz Racki, and Yoshitaka Kakuwa		 109