Larger foraminifera of the southeastern Mediterranean shallow continental shelf off Israel

Hyams, Orit; Almogi‐Labin, Ahuva; Benjaminia, Chaim

doi:10.1560/qae1-ktee-2k2l-qpch

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“…Th e foraminiferan is limited by the winter isotherm 14 °C (Langer 2008), which is slightly higher than the 13.5 °C encountered there presently, but lower than the 15 °C which is the minimum for the hermatypic corals like Porites (Por 2008). Amphistegina resettled the Mediterranean recently (Hyams et al 2002; Fig. 3), but although already widely spread, did not reach as yet the Tyrrhenian Sea.…”

Section: The Mid-pliocene Optimum and The Gelasian Crisismentioning

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“…Th e last centuries of the Miocene Mediterranean with the Indian Ocean through the drying-out Mesopotamian trough must have been much more problematic and restrictive than the present so-called renewed "artifi cial" contact through the Suez Canal. Certainly, the 30 newly established tropical benthic foraminiferans (Hyams et al 2002) will defi ne a new Mediterranean geological phase for the future paleoecologists. Understandably, the issue of the alien invading species is a very worrisome one everywhere.…”

Section: Congruence and Equifinality Allow Re-colonization And Enrichmentioning

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“…Heterostegina, the last surviving genus of this family, disappeared from the Mediterranean, some fi ve million years ago. Th e recent discovery that Heterostegina depressa is again abundantly represented in the sandy sediments along the Israeli coast of the Mediterranean, together with other symbiont-bearing Foraminifera (Hyams et al 2002) conferred the real historical dimension to the biodiversity shift happening presently in the Mediterranean. Th e Mediterranean is possibly and partly reverting to its original tropical warm-water biological condition, which was only relatively recently interrupted by the start of the glaciation cycles 2.58 million years ago.…”

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Tethys returns to the Mediterranean: Success and Limits of Tropical Re-Colonization

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2009

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Many thousands of tropical species have been settling in the Mediterranean during the last decades. Th is is the result of congruence between the present Climate Optimum, which is expressed in the warming of the sea and the opening of the contact with the Indo-pacifi c realm through the Suez Canal and a renewed entry through the Straits of Gibraltar. A historical review shows that tropical biota survived in the Mediterranean till the end of the Pliocene Climate Optimum and that presently we are witnessing a re-colonization of the Mediterranean by Tethyan descendants, rather than an invasion by harmful alien species as happens elsewhere. Th e limits of this resettling as witnessed today are discussed.

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Section: The Mid-pliocene Optimum and The Gelasian Crisismentioning

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Section: Congruence and Equifinality Allow Re-colonization And Enrichmentioning

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2009

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“…High numbers of invasive species were found on the Akhziv -Rosh HaNikra coast (Hyams et al, 2002;Hyams-Kaphzan et al, 2008). In addition, the alien miliolids Borelis schlumbergeri, a larger symbiont-bearing benthic foraminifera and Pseudohauerinella dissidens (McCulloch) were collected only from this coast.…”

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“…The majority of the invasive foraminifera are tropical, of Indo-Pacific origin and have entered the Mediterranean from the Red Sea through the Suez Canal. Hyams et al (2002) and Hyams-Kaphzan et al (2008) were the first to report on the occurrence of invasive foraminifera on the Israeli coast. Lazar (2007) and Hyams-Kaphzan et al (2008) pointed out that the highest numbers of invasive species were collected from the coasts of Akhziv -Rosh HaNikra, northern Israel.…”

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Epistomaroides punctatus (Said, 1949) - a new alien foraminifera found at Akhziv - Rosh HaNikra, northern Israel, eastern Mediterranean Sea

Almogi‐Labin

Hyams-Kaphzan

2012

Medit. Mar. Sci.

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Palaeobiogeography and evolutionary patterns of the larger foraminiferBorelisde Montfort (Borelidae)

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Braga

Domenico

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The palaeobiogeography of the alveolinoid Borelis species reveals the evolutionary patterns leading to the two extant representatives, which occur in shallow‐water tropical carbonate, coral reef‐related settings. Type material and new material of fossil Borelis species, along with Recent specimens were studied to assess their taxonomic status, species circumscriptions (based on proloculus size, occurrence of Y‐shaped septula, and the index of elongation), palaeobiogeography and evolutionary dynamics. The species dealt with here are known from exclusively fossil (B. pygmaea, B. inflata, B. philippinensis, B. melo, B. curdica), and from fossil and modern (B. pulchra, B. schlumbergeri) specimens. For the first time, fossil and Recent Borelis specimens are illustrated via micro‐computed tomography scanning images. Depending on the occurrence of Y‐shaped septula, two lineages are distinguished. Deriving from the middle–upper Eocene Borelis vonderschmitti, the first lineage includes B. inflata, B. pulchra and B. pygmaea, lacking Y‐shaped septula. The first species bearing Y‐shaped septula is the Rupelian B. philippinensis of the western Indo‐Pacific. The westward migrants of B. philippinensis into the Mediterranean gave rise to B. melo (Aquitanian–Messinian) and B. curdica (Burdigalian–Tortonian). These two species became isolated from the Indo‐Pacific by the Langhian eastern closure of the Mediterranean basin and disappeared during the Messinian Salinity Crisis. Since the Tortonian, B. schlumbergeri, which descended from B. philippinensis, has inhabited the Indo‐Pacific along with B. pulchra. From the central Pacific Ocean, B. pulchra reached the Caribbean area before the early Piacenzian closure of the Central America seaway.

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Larger foraminifera of the southeastern Mediterranean shallow continental shelf off Israel

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Tethys returns to the Mediterranean: Success and Limits of Tropical Re-Colonization

Tethys returns to the Mediterranean: Success and Limits of Tropical Re-Colonization

Epistomaroides punctatus (Said, 1949) - a new alien foraminifera found at Akhziv - Rosh HaNikra, northern Israel, eastern Mediterranean Sea

Palaeobiogeography and evolutionary patterns of the larger foraminiferBorelisde Montfort (Borelidae)

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