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Dinoflagellate cyst and nannoplankton assemblages from the Middle Eocene Kuma Formation of Crimean Peninsula — biostratigraphy and palynofacies
Institution:1. Institute of Geology and Geochemistry of the Ural Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 15 Akademika Vonsovskogo Street, Ekaterinburg 620110, Russia;2. Lower Volga Institute of Geology and Geophysics, 70 Moskovskaya Street, Saratov, 410012, Russia
Abstract:The stratigraphic correlation of the Kuma Formation from the south of the Russian Platform and the Crimea-Caucasian region has been a matter of debate for decades. A bed-by-beds study of dinocysts and nannoplankton from the the Kuma Formation made it possible to recognize a sequence of biotic events, important for defining and correlating the biozones. At the Bakhchisarai limestone quarry, six dinoflagellate zones and six nannoplankton zonal units were recognized, assignable to the Middle Eocene Lutetian and Bartonian stages. Our paleoecological analyses of the organic-walled microphytoplankton assemblages and of the palynofacies indicate that the the Kuma Formation deposited in the inner shelf zone, probably of anoxic and eutrophic settings within the Pontic-Transcaucasian magmatic belt. Assemblages of organic-walled microphytoplankton comprise potentially toxic dinoflagellate species of Alexandrium. The Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum event is recorded in the upper part of the the Kuma Formation, presumably indicated by the Dracodinium rhomboideum dinoflagellate zone, which is characterized by an acme of Dracodinium laszczynskii Gedl and the lowest occurrence of nannofossils Reticulofenestra bisecta (Hay, Mohler and Wade) Roth. Two new species are described: Pentadinium rugosum Vasilyeva, n. sp. (dinocyst) and Corannulus tauricum Musatov, n. sp. (nannofossil). The bioevents and biozones established herein are significant for correlations of the Middle Eocene of the Crimean Peninsula and the south of the Russian Platform.
Keywords:dinocysts  nannoplankton  Lutetian  Bartonian  biostratigraphy  Crimean Peninsula
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