Open AccessDinocysts from the mid–upper Eocene Aktumsuk section, Ustyurt, Uzbekistan: biostratigraphy and paleoenvironments
Author(s) -
Alina I. Iakovleva,
Alina I. Iakovleva,
E. A. Shcherbinina,
E. A. Shcherbinina,
N. G. Muzylev,
N. G. Muzylev,
Г. Н. Александрова,
Г. Н. Александрова
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
stratigrafiâ. geologičeskaâ korrelâciâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0869-592X
DOI - 10.31857/s0869-592x27678-102
Subject(s) - dinocyst , paleontology , biostratigraphy , geology , dinoflagellate , palynology , acritarch , plateau (mathematics) , sedimentation , transgressive , sedimentary depositional environment , structural basin , oceanography , ecology , biology , pollen , mathematical analysis , mathematics , sediment
The results of palynological study of the MidUpper Eocene sediments of the Aktumsuk key-section (Ustyurt Plateau, Uzbekistan), calibrated with nannoplankton data, are presented. Dinocyst stratigraphical distribution permitted to recognize five Dinoflagellate zones from the Peri-Tethys zonation: Costacysta bucina, Enneadocysta pectiniformis, Rhombodinium draco, Rhombodinium perforatum, and Thalassiphora reticulata. First-order calibration with nannoplankton zones permitted to precise the lowermost occurrences of the key dinocyst species. Based on the dinocyst and nannoplankton data, two important stratigraphic hiatuses, corresponding to the upper Ypresian and Upper BartonianLower Priabonian, were recognized. Analysis of quantitative fluctuations of different groups of palynomorphs through the section indicates paleoenvironmental changes in this part of the Peri-Tethys during the LutetianPriabonian: the beginning of significant transgressive phase in the early Lutetian, relative deepening in the Mid Lutetian; after the break in sedimentation at the end of Bartianianbeginning of Priabonian the sedimentation continues again in the open-marine (outer neritic) environment.