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Extinction of inoceramid bivalves in Maastrichtian strata of the Bay of Biscay region of France and Spain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Kenneth G. MacLeod
Kenneth G. MacLeod*
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Department of Paleobiology, MRC:NHB 121, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560
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Abstract

Maastrichtian strata of the Zumaya-Algorta Formation of southwestern France and northeastern Spain record a major pulse of extinction among inoceramid bivalves well before the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) boundary. Inoceramids are the most abundant macrofossils preserved in the study sections; at least six species of Inoceramus [I. (Endocostea) aff. I. (En.) balticus Giers, I. (En.) pteroides Giers, I. (Platyceramus) aff. I. (Pl.) cycloides Wegner, I. (Trochoceramus) nahorianensis Kociubynskij, I. (Tr.) morgani Sornay, and I.(?) goldfussianus d'Orbigny] are common to abundant in lower Maastrichtian strata. However, all six species disappear over a few tens of meters of section near the base of the upper Maastrichtian, as defined by the first appearance of the planktonic foraminifer Abathomphalus mayaroensis. Tenuipteria argentea (Conrad), which has not been recovered from the lower Maastrichtian portions of the sections, occurs at low abundances through the upper Maastrichtian, disappearing within 10 cm of the K–T boundary.

The mid-Maastrichtian extinction interval among inoceramids occurs within the upper Globotruncana gansseri to lower Abathomphalus mayaroensis planktonic foraminiferal zone, in nannofossil zone 24 to 25A, in the Anapachydiscus fresvillensis ammonite zone, in magnetochron 31N, and near the base of a change in slope of the seawater strontium curve, all as recognized by previous studies in one or more of the study sections. Whereas the new data presented here are not global in extent, the observed distribution of inoceramids may be the local manifestation of global oceanic changes during the mid-Maastrichtian.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 68 , Issue 5 , September 1994 , pp. 1048 - 1066
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