Abstract:The rise of calcareous nannoplankton in Mesozoic oceans has deeply impacted ocean chemistry and contributed to shaping modern oceans. Nevertheless, the calcareous nannoplankton colonization of past marine environments remains poorly understood. Based on an extensive compilation of published and unpublished data, we show that their accumulation rates in sediments increased from the Early Jurassic ( ∼ 200 Ma) to the Early Cretaceous (∼ 120 Ma), although these algae diversified up to the end of the Mesozoic (66 M… Show more
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