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Multivariate statistical analyses of assemblages of fossil dinoflagellate cysts in North Atlantic samples from the Palaeogene to the Pleistocene allowed us to identify ecological associations by empirical and objective means. The associations can be assigned to three major groups, associated with different climatic conditions that occurred during this time. Dinoflagellate cyst diagrams (analogous to pollen diagrams) covering the period between the Early Eocene and the Late Pliocene are presented, and used to make correlations with terrestrial pollen diagrams, and with the global oxygen isotope record. The thermal climax in the earlier Eocene, and the sharp cooling episode in the earliest Oligocene, are merely two of the most dramatic climatic events by which correlations can be made.
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Hubbard, R.N.L.B., Boulter, M.C., Manum, S.B. (1994). Cenozoic Dinoflagellate Palaeoecology Elucidated, and Used For Marine-Terrestrial Biological Correlation. In: Boulter, M.C., Fisher, H.C. (eds) Cenozoic Plants and Climates of the Arctic. NATO ASI Series, vol 27. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79378-3_5
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