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Cretaceous foraminifera and the evolutionary history of planktic photosymbiosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2016

Steven D'Hondt  and
James C. Zachos
Steven D'Hondt
Affiliation:
University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography, Narragansett, Rhode Island 02882. E-mail: dhondt@gsosun1.gso.uri.edu
James C. Zachos
Affiliation:
Earth and Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064. E-mail: jzachos@earthsci.ucsc.edu
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Abstract

Ecotypic correlations between stable isotopic signals and skeletal size indicate that some Late Cretaceous serial planktic foraminifera were strongly photosymbiotic. In contrast, coeval trochospiral planktic foraminifera do not exhibit the isotope/size signatures that typify strongly photosymbiotic species. Comparison to Cenozoic taxa demonstrates that photosymbiosis has recurred throughout planktic foraminiferal history and has evolved independently in superfamilies characterized by very different gross skeletal morphologies. The historical contingency of that evolution is illustrated by the consequences of the Cretaceous/Paleogene mass extinction, which terminated the Cretaceous lineages of photosymbiotic planktic foraminifera but did not permanently extinguish photosymbiont reliance by planktic foraminifera.

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Paleobiology , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , Fall 1998 , pp. 512 - 523
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