Changes in floral diversities, floral turnover rates, and climates in Campanian and Maastrichtian time, North Slope of Alaska
Cretaceous Research
By: N. O. Frederiksen
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Abstract
One-hundred-and-ten angiosperm pollen taxa have been found in upper Campanian to Masstrichtian rocks of the Colville River region, North Slope of Alaska. These are the highest paleolatitude Campanian and Maastrichtian floras known from North America. Total angiosperm pollen diversity rose during the Campanian and declined toward the end of the Maastrichtian. However, anemophilous porate pollen of the Betulaceae-Myricaceae-Ulmaceae complex increased gradually in diversity during the late Campanian and Maastrichtian and into the Paleocene. Turnover of angiosperm taxa was active throughout most of late Campanian and Maastrichtian time; rapid turnover affected mainly the taxa of zoophilous herbs, representing an bundant but ecologically subordinate element of the vegetation. Last appearances of pollen taxa during the late Campanian and Maastrichtian probably represented mainly extinctions rather than emigrations; end- Cretaceous angiosperm extinctions in the North American Arctic began well before the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary event. The last appearances in the late Maastrichtian took place in bursts; they appear to represent stepwise rather than gradual events, which may indicate the existence of pulses of climatic change particularly in late Maastrichtian time. ?? 1989.
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Frederiksen, N.O., 1989, Changes in floral diversities, floral turnover rates, and climates in Campanian and Maastrichtian time, North Slope of Alaska: Cretaceous Research, v. 10, no. 3, p. 249-266, https://doi.org/10.1016/0195-6671(89)90021-9.
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| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Changes in floral diversities, floral turnover rates, and climates in Campanian and Maastrichtian time, North Slope of Alaska |
| Series title | Cretaceous Research |
| DOI | 10.1016/0195-6671(89)90021-9 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Year Published | 1989 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Description | 18 p. |
| First page | 249 |
| Last page | 266 |
| Country | United States |
| State | Alaska |
| Other Geospatial | North Slope |