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Ammonites on the Brink of Extinction: Diversity, Abundance, and Ecology of the Order Ammonoidea at the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/Pg) Boundary

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Ammonoid Paleobiology: From macroevolution to paleogeography

Part of the book series: Topics in Geobiology ((TGBI,volume 44))

Abstract

We examined the stratigraphic distribution of ammonites at a total of 29 sites around the world in the last 0.5 myr of the Maastrichtian. We demarcated this interval using biostratigraphy, magnetostratigraphy, cyclostratigraphy, and data on fossil occurrences in relation to the K/Pg boundary in sections without any facies change between the highest ammonites and the K/Pg boundary. The ammonites at this time represent all four Mesozoic suborders comprising six superfamilies, 31 (sub)genera, and 57 species. The distribution of ammonites is dependent on the environmental setting. Recent data suggest that ammonites persisted to the boundary and some species may have survived for several tens of thousands of years into the Paleogene. The best explanation for ammonite extinction is a brief episode of ocean acidification immediately following the Chixculub impact, which caused the decimation of the calcareous plankton including the planktic post-hatching stages of ammonites. The geographic distribution of ammonites may also have played a role in the events with more broadly distributed genera being more resistant to extinction.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Margaret (Peg) Yacobucci (Bowling Green University) and an anonymous reviewer for very helpful comments that materially improved the manuscript. NHL thanks J. Kirk Cochran (Stony Brook University) for helpful discussions. SG thanks Etienne Steurbaut (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences), Christian Dupuis (Université de Mons, Michel ­Hennebert (Université de Mons), and Mohadinne Yahia (Kalaat Senan) for helpful discussions and assistance in the field. This research was supported by NSF Grant DEB-1353510 to NHL.

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    Marcin Machalski

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Appendix of Localities

Appendix of Localities

1: Manasquan River Basin, Monmouth County, New Jersey, U.S.A., 40°12ʹ30ʺN, 74°17ʹ30ʺW

2: Northeastern Monmouth County, New Jersey, U.S.A., 40°17ʹ30ʺN, 74°7ʹ14ʺW

3: Round Bay, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, U.S.A., 39°2ʹ13ʺN, 76°33ʹ28ʺW

4: Stoddard and Scott counties, Missouri, U.S.A., 37°00ʹ17ʺN, 89°51ʹ02ʺW

5: Tippah County, Mississippi, U.S.A., 34°44ʹ55ʺN, 88°54ʹ47ʺW

6: Chickasaw County, Mississippi, U.S.A., 33°58ʹ04ʺN, 89°00ʹ05ʺW

7: Brazos River, Falls County, Texas, U.S.A.,31°8ʹ11ʺN, 96°49ʹ40ʺW

8: La Popa Basin, Northeastern Mexico, 26°12ʹ44ʺN, 101°4ʹ25ʺW

9: Stevns Klint, Denmark, 55°16ʹ45ʺN, 12°26ʹ47ʺE

10: Kjølby Gård, Denmark, 57°3ʹ15ʺN, 8°44ʹ55ʺE

11: “Dania” Quarry, northern Denmark, 56°39ʹ42ʺN, 10°1ʹ56ʺE

12: Maastrichtian Type Area, The Netherlands and Belgium, 50°49ʹ18.41ʺN, 5°41ʹ39.54ʺE

13: Nasiłów, Poland, 51°20ʹ39ʺN, 21°57ʹ35ʺE

14: Mełgiew, Poland, 51°13ʹ30ʺN, 22°47ʹ8ʺE

15: Lechówka, Poland, 51°10ʹ17ʺN, 23°14ʹ43ʺE

16: Kyzylsay, Kazakhstan, 44°20ʹ1ʺN, 52°26ʹ10ʺE

17: Sumbar River, Turkmenistan, 38°27ʹ18ʺN, 56°12ʹ41ʺE

18: Zumaya, Bay of Biscay Area, 43°17ʹ54ʺN, 2°16ʹ16ʺW

19: Hendaye, Bay of Biscay Area, 43°23ʹ1ʺN, 1°49ʹ26ʺW

20: Bidart, Bay of Biscay Area, 43°26ʹ25ʺN, 1°35ʹ41ʺW

21: Bjala (= Byala), Bulgaria, 42°52ʹ44ʺN, 27°53ʹ57ʺE

22: Kalaat Senan, Tunisia, 35°47ʹ15ʺN, 8°27ʹ21ʺE

23: El Kef, Tunisia, 36°9ʹ15ʺN, 8°38ʹ55ʺE

24: Garn Halfaya, Tunisia, 36°0ʹ40ʺN, 8°33ʹ23ʺE

25: Dababiya Quarry Corehole, Egypt, 25°30ʹ10ʺN, 32°31ʹ27ʺE

26: Naiba River Valley, Sakhalin, Far East Russia, 47°28ʹ34ʺN, 142°24ʹ10ʺE

27: Poty Quarry, Brazil, 7°53ʹ95ʺS, 34°51ʹ14ʺW

28: Lomas Colorados, Bajada de Jagüel, Neuquen Basin, Argentina, 37°59ʹ24ʺS, 68°47ʹ38ʺW

29: Seymour Island, Antarctica, 64°16ʹ50ʺS, 56°43ʹ23ʺW

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Landman, N., Goolaerts, S., Jagt, J., Jagt-Yazykova, E., Machalski, M. (2015). Ammonites on the Brink of Extinction: Diversity, Abundance, and Ecology of the Order Ammonoidea at the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/Pg) Boundary. In: Klug, C., Korn, D., De Baets, K., Kruta, I., Mapes, R. (eds) Ammonoid Paleobiology: From macroevolution to paleogeography. Topics in Geobiology, vol 44. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9633-0_19

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