Frutexites from microbial/metazoan bioconstructions of recent and Pleistocene marine caves (Sicily, Italy)

Guido, Adriano; Rosso, Antonietta; Sanfilippo, Rossana; Russo, Federico; Mastandrea, Adelaide

doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.04.025

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“…Myrow and Coniglio [161], Böhm and Brachert [142], and Cavalazzi et al [128] have interpreted a cryptobiontic lifestyle for the organisms producing Frutexites. Bacterial and fungal communities have been recorded related to Fe-Mn crusts in Pleistocene and modern examples from submarine caves in the Mediterranean [134,162,163], and from reef caves at Lizard Island in Great Barrier Reef [164]. These observations confirm the growth of such Fe-Mn coatings in reduced light conditions.…”

Section: Cryptic Fe-mn Frutexites Crustssupporting

confidence: 53%

“…Frutexites has recently interpreted as chemosynthetic bacteria [128], and previously attributed to cyanobacterial origin [129][130][131] with different types of cyanobacteria involved (Scytonematacean [132]; Rivulariacean [133]; Angulocellularia group [2]). Recently, Guido et al [134] interpreted the Frutexites from Pleistocene marine cavities as a result of the activity of mesophilic Fe-Mn autotrophic and heterotrophic bacteria. However, filamentous cyanobacteria of Frutexites were not identified in SEM images.…”

Section: Microbiotamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, Dahanayake and Krumbein [39] affirmed that iron-secreting microbial mats are predominantly fungal in origin. Moreover, the presence of Frutexites-like forms is commonly associated with Fe-Mn crusts, and they are inferred as chemosynthetic and cryptobiontic microorganisms [128,134,142,143].…”

Section: Iron Crusts and Macro-oncoids On Hardgroundsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The record of Frutexites is usually related to Fe-Mn oxyhydroxides [51,128,131,134,142,[157][158][159]. The type of microbe involved in Frutexites, however, is unclear being frequently assigned to a cyanobacterial origin [2,131,132] or interpreted as a chemosynthetic and cryptobiontic microorganism [128,134,142,143,160]. Böhm and Brachert [142] related the record of Frutexites with scarce light availability and aphotic stromatolites and evoked a non-phototrophic behavior in Jurassic examples from Germany.…”

Section: Cryptic Fe-mn Frutexites Crustsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Jurassic Non-Carbonate Microbialites from the Betic-Rifian Cordillera (Tethys Western End): Textures, Mineralogy, and Environmental Reconstruction

Reolid

Abad

2019

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The term microbialite is commonly applied for describing carbonate organo-sedimentary deposits that have accreted as a result of the activity of benthic microbial communities (BMC). However, non-carbonate microbialites are progressively well-known and show a great diversity of organisms, processes, and mineralogical compositions. This article reviews three types of Jurassic microbialites from four different environmental contexts from the Betic-Rifian Cordillera (South Spain and North Morocco): marine hardgrounds, submarine caves, hydrothermal vents, and submarine volcanic deposits. The Middle-Late Jurassic transition in the External Subbetic (Betic Cordillera) and the Jbel Moussa Group (Rifian Calcareous Chain) was characterized by the fragmentation of the carbonate epicontinental platforms that favored these different settings: (A) Many stratigraphic breaks are recorded as hardgrounds with surficial hydrogenetic Fe crusts and macro-oncoids related to chemo-organotrophic behavior of BMC that served as a specific trap for Fe and Mn enrichment; (B) Cryptic hydrogenetic Fe-Mn crusts (or endostromatolites) grew in the walls of submarine cavities and fractures mainly constituted by Frutexites (chemosynthetic and cryptobiontic microorganism) locally associated to serpulids; (C) Hydrothermal Mn crusts are mainly constituted by different types of filaments and bacillus-shaped bacteria, whose mineralogy and geochemistry point to a submarine hydrothermal origin; (D) Finally, glauconite laminated crusts, constituted by branched cylindrical filaments, have grown in cryptic spaces among the pillow-lava bodies, probably related to the metabolism of chemo-organotrophic microbes under oxic conditions at temperatures between 30 and 90 °C. In most of the cases described in this work, microbial organisms forming microbialites were extremophiles.

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Section: Cryptic Fe-mn Frutexites Crustssupporting

confidence: 53%

Section: Microbiotamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Iron Crusts and Macro-oncoids On Hardgroundsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Cryptic Fe-mn Frutexites Crustsmentioning

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Jurassic Non-Carbonate Microbialites from the Betic-Rifian Cordillera (Tethys Western End): Textures, Mineralogy, and Environmental Reconstruction

Reolid

Abad

2019

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“…These micrite types were commonly associated with anaerobic bacteria thriving in cryptic cavities characterized by suboxic to anoxic conditions [61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69]. Recently, microbial activity, inducing biomineralization processes in modern cryptic environments, was recognized in bioconstructions growing on submarine caves [70][71][72][73][74]. Biomarkers, with a high specificity of sulfate-reducing bacteria, are indicative of a univocal microbial process mediating the precipitation of microbialite in the marine caves [75,76].…”

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Autochthonous Micrite to Aphanodolomite: The Microbialites in the Dolomitization Processes

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In the present paper, we examine the influence of micrite types, autochthonous or allochthonous, on the dolomitization processes. The recrystallized and dolomitized Carnian samples from Rifugio Vallandro and Alpe di Specie erratic boulders (South Tyrol, Italy) offer a unique example for studying the relationship between microbialites and dolomitization processes. The comparison between the carbonates of the well-preserved erratic boulders of Alpe di Specie and the isochronous, recrystallized, and dolomitized, samples of Rifugio Vallandro, allows for hypothesizing the role of microbialites on dolomitization processes. The Rifugio Vallandro samples represent variously dolomitized boundstone (made of corals, sponges, and peloidal crusts) with a fine texture (aphanodolomite) which contain organic matter relics, suggesting microbial-mediated mineralization. Geomicrobiological characterization of the microbialites from Alpe di Specie indicates that they formed through microbial metabolic activity of sulfate-reducing bacteria, which thrive on organic matter accumulated in the suboxic to anoxic interspaces of the skeletal framework. Similar processes can be hypothesized for the microbialite precursor of Rifugio Vallandro. Extracellular polymeric substance (EPS) and other organic compounds trapped inside the fine crystal matrix can have a role in the dolomitization processes of the microbialites. High pH and high alkalinity, derived from the degradation of organic matter, may be critical in promoting the dolomitization of microbialites because the high pH increases the concentration and activity of the dissolved CO32−, thereby increasing the dolomite supersaturation and reaction rates. This process produces very fine dolomite (aphanodolomite) that replaces the original organic-rich micrite, while the fine crystalline dolomite forming larger euhedral crystals seems to derive from the allochthonous micrite due to the presence of a large amount of siliciclastics and the absence of organic remains.

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Animal Forests in Submarine Caves

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Mastandrea

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Perspectives on the Marine Animal Forests of the World

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Frutexites from microbial/metazoan bioconstructions of recent and Pleistocene marine caves (Sicily, Italy)

Cited by 24 publications

References 54 publications

Jurassic Non-Carbonate Microbialites from the Betic-Rifian Cordillera (Tethys Western End): Textures, Mineralogy, and Environmental Reconstruction

Jurassic Non-Carbonate Microbialites from the Betic-Rifian Cordillera (Tethys Western End): Textures, Mineralogy, and Environmental Reconstruction

Autochthonous Micrite to Aphanodolomite: The Microbialites in the Dolomitization Processes

Animal Forests in Submarine Caves

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