Fossil assemblages associated with submerged beachrock beds as indicators of environmental changes in terrigenous sediments: Examples from the Gelasian (Early Pleistocene) of Rhodes, Greece

Moissette, Pierre; Koskeridou, Efterpi; Cornée, Jean‐Jacques; André, Jean-Pierre

doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.09.007

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“…Hard bottom biota assemblage. It consists of a wide variety of skeletal organisms and characterizes a habitat that has been formed by the drowning of former beachrock beds (Cornée et al, 2006;Moissette et al, 2013 (Moissette et al 2007, Moissette et al 2013, but in that case they are not in situ and they are represented with the other assemblages of the littoral bottom.…”

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Molluscan assemblages in a highly variable setting in littoral bottoms of the Lower Pleistocene of Rhodes (Greece).

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Highly diverse and well preserved marine mollusc associations from a sandy horizon of the Lower Pleistocene shallow water deposits of Rhodes island are here presented. Four significantly different molluscan assemblages characterize neighboring environments and document a variety of niches provided by the lateral change of bottom type. Molluscs of hard substrate to sandy seabed of the Infralittoral Zone were documented. A total of 55 molluscan species were identified. Gastropods dominate with 29 species. For the first time, the Ervilia castanea assemblage is described for the Lower Pleistocene of Greece.

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“…The present study focuses on sandy beds of one outcrop of the Kritika Member (Rhodes Formation) which is composed predominantly of siliciclastic deposits intercalated with hard bottom levels formed by the drowning of former beachrock beds (Cornée et al, 2006;Moissette et al, 2013).…”

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Molluscan assemblages in a highly variable setting in littoral bottoms of the Lower Pleistocene of Rhodes (Greece).

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“…6d, e) and is typical of a nearshore ( c . 20 m) rocky bottom environment (Moissette et al 2013). This association of algae and invertebrates is a possible analogue of the pre-coralligenous biocoenosis of Pérès and Picard (1964).…”

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“…Both were established at a depth of c . 20–40 m (Moissette et al 2013). This is notably indicated by the accompanying mollusc fauna with bivalves ( Chlamys multistriata, C. varia, Chama gryphoides, C. placentina, Pseudochama gryphina, Ostrea edulis, Spondylus gaederopus, Hiatella rugosa and Striarca lactea ) and gastropods (turritellids, naticids, vermetids and herbivorous species such as Alvania cancellata, Rissoa spp., Bittium spp., Cerithiopsis tubercularis, Jujubinus spp., Diodora gibberula and Nassarius incrassatus ).…”

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“…The lower Pleistocene (Gelasian) deposits of the Kritika Formation correspond to the first marine incursion after the formation of the Aegean chain and the deposition of Miocene–Pliocene continental/lacustrine sediments (van Hinsbergen et al 2007). Relatively few studies have however been carried out on the Kritika, and have been limited to general geological or localized geochemical aspects (Broekman, 1973, 1974; Lécuyer et al 2012) or to some peculiar features such as communities associated with fossil seagrasses (Moissette et al 2007; Moissette, 2012) or submerged beachrock beds (Moissette et al 2013).…”

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Facies associations in warm-temperate siliciclastic deposits: insights from early Pleistocene eastern Mediterranean (Rhodes, Greece)

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International audienceDiverse, abundant and usually well-preserved communities of skeletal organisms occur in the lower Pleistocene (Gelasian) siliciclastic deposits of the Greek island of Rhodes. Benthic foraminifers, molluscs and bryozoans have been studied in four measured and sampled sections located in the northern part of the island. Among these bottom-dwelling organisms, numerous extant taxa are good environmental indicators and, combined with field observations and sedimentological data, they provide information on the probable conditions in which they developed. The siliciclastic deposits of the Kritika Formation have been divided into 14 different bio- and lithofacies, which have been further grouped into four facies associations corresponding to four different environmental settings: (1) continental to fluviatile; (2) brackish-water (lagoonal/deltaic); (3) infralittoral (0–20 m); and (4) upper circalittoral (depths of 20–40 m, but also down to c. 50–60 m). Among the marine facies associations, several characteristic biocoenoses have been recognized: soft-bottoms (fine to coarse sands and gravels); seagrass meadows; biogenic calcareous crusts on drowned beachrock slabs; red algal rhodoliths; and bivalve shell beds. In the studied sections, 13 superimposed genetic sequences have been documented. The repetition of similar facies associations within each sequence suggests: (1) a possibly eustasy-controlled, cyclic sedimentation; (2) a general subsidence of Rhodes during the deposition of the studied facies associations; and (3) a mostly constant range of environmental conditions (i.e. sedimentation rates and temperature) throughout the Gelasian

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Coastal fish otoliths from the early Pleistocene of Rhodes (eastern Mediterranean)

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Koskeridou

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Fossil assemblages associated with submerged beachrock beds as indicators of environmental changes in terrigenous sediments: Examples from the Gelasian (Early Pleistocene) of Rhodes, Greece

Cited by 12 publications

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Molluscan assemblages in a highly variable setting in littoral bottoms of the Lower Pleistocene of Rhodes (Greece).

Molluscan assemblages in a highly variable setting in littoral bottoms of the Lower Pleistocene of Rhodes (Greece).

Facies associations in warm-temperate siliciclastic deposits: insights from early Pleistocene eastern Mediterranean (Rhodes, Greece)

Coastal fish otoliths from the early Pleistocene of Rhodes (eastern Mediterranean)

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