High-Resolution Stable Isotope Profiles of a Dimitobelid Belemnite: Implications for Paleodepth Habitat and Late Maastrichtian Climate Seasonality

Abstract

Oxygen and carbon isotope ratios were measured on belemnites, planktonic foraminifera, and benthic foraminifera collected from Late Cretaceous sediments on Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula, to compare the relative depth habitats of these organisms and to provide insight on temperature seasonality at high southern latitudes near the end of the Cretaceous. 18 0 on high-resolution samples across belemnite growth bands indicate that annual temperature variability of sub-mixed-layer neritic water along the Antarctic coastline was 5°C on average with a mean annual temperature of 6°C.

Stable isotope (δ18O and δ13C) sclerochronology of Callovian (Middle Jurassic) bivalves (Gryphaea (Bilobissa) dilobotes) and belemnites (Cylindroteuthis puzosiana) from the Peterborough Member of the Oxford Clay Formation (Cambridgeshire, England): Evidence of palaeoclimate, water depth and belemnite behaviour

“…Dutton et al, 2007;Wierzbowski and Joachimski, 2009;Price et al, 2012), and in studies where average belemnite δ 18 O palaeotemperatures were lower than those derived from proxies believed to represent SSTs, e.g. TEX 86 (Mutterlose et al, 2010;2012) In the present case, depth of belemnite habitat alone cannot explain the significant offset in the temperature minima between belemnites and benthos revealed here by incremental analyses.…”

Diversity and morphological evolution of Jurassic belemnites from South Germany

“…According to their fossil record, these coleoids inhabited surface to deep waters of epicontinental domains, and were present at worldwide scale, both in the subtropical and polar areas (Stevens, 1963(Stevens, , 1965(Stevens, , 1971Stevens and Clayton, 1971;Christensen, 1976;Doyle, 1987Doyle, , 1994Doyle et al, 1997;Christensen, 2002). In agreement with the regional distribution and the palaeoenvironmental differences in the taxonomic composition of most belemnite communities (Mutterlose and Wiedenroth, 1998;Mariotti et al, 2012;Weis et al, 2012), recent geochemical analyses of rostra indicate that different species might have had different ecological preferences in term of life depth, seawater temperature, or salinity (Dutton et al, 2007;McArthur et al, 2007;Dera et al, 2009;Rexford and Mutterlose, 2009;Mutterlose et al, 2010;Wierzbowski and Rogov, 2011;Li et al, 2012;Harazim et al, 2013;Stevens et al, 2014;Wierzbowski, 2015). Nevertheless, some eurytopic taxa likely migrated over several hundreds of kilometers and different depths during their lifetime (Christensen, 1997;Zakharov et al, 2006;Alsen and Mutterlose, 2009;Sørensen et al, 2015).…”

Ammonoid Habitats and Life History

“…1977;Marshall 1981;Landman et al 1983;Whittaker et al 1987;Fatherree et al 1998;Cochran et al 2003Cochran et al , 2010aMoriya et al 2003;He et al 2005;Ifrim and Stinnesbeck 2010;Henderson and Price 2012;Zakharov et al 2005Zakharov et al , 2006Zakharov et al , 2001Zakharov et al , 2012. Similar investigations were made on the endocochleate belemnites (Lowenstein and Epstein 1954;Spaeth et al 1971;Ditchfield 1997;Podlaha et al 1998;Price et al 2000;Niebuhr and Jochiamski 2002;McArthur et al 2004;Price and Mutterlose 2004;Dutton et al 2007;Zakharov et al 1999Zakharov et al , 2005Zakharov et al , 2011. Additional analyses were performed on nacreous shells of Carboniferous nautiloids from Oklahoma (Seuss et al 2012).…”