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The Use of Early Miocene Bryozoan Faunal Affinities in the Central Paratethys for Inferring Climatic Change and Seaway Connections

Early Miocene Bryozoans in the Central Paratethys

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Bryozoan Studies 2010

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences ((LNESS,volume 143))

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The bryozoan faunas from a few important localities of the early Miocene of the Austrian part of the Central Paratethys are briefly described. All bryozoan faunas belong to the late Eggenburgian or early Ottnangian except for two localities yielding only a few rather poor fragments of bryozoans. Faunal migrations from the Western Mediterranean via the Rhône Basin into the Alpine Foredeep and the Central Paratethys best explain the geographic distribution of a number of bryozoan genera in the faunas of the Eggenburgian. A short climatic deterioration during this time-span may explain the occurrence of bryozoan-rich strata at this time characterized by extended temperate-water sedimentation. This climatic event could also explain why some genera are either extremely rare (e.g. Steginoporella) or even completely absent.

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Acknowledgements

Our bryozoan studies have been supported by the Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Austria), FWF-Project P19337-B17 (‘Biodiversity and faunal interchange: Bryozoans of the Paratethys’) and P15600-B06 (‘Bryozoan sediments in Cenozoic tropical environments’), a support, which is gratefully acknowledged. The author is also greatly indebted to A. Ostrovsky (University of Vienna) for a number of stereoscan pictures, to K. Holcová (Charles University, Praha) for biostratigraphical and ecological studies of foraminifera, R. Roetzel (Austrian Geological Survey) for information concerning biostratigraphy, and M. Vávra (Vienna) for graphical work. A number of valuable suggestions by the reviewers (B. Berning, K. Zágoršek, and M. Key) and by the editor (P. Schäfer) are gratefully acknowledged.

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Vávra, N. (2013). The Use of Early Miocene Bryozoan Faunal Affinities in the Central Paratethys for Inferring Climatic Change and Seaway Connections. In: Ernst, A., Schäfer, P., Scholz, J. (eds) Bryozoan Studies 2010. Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences, vol 143. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16411-8_27

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