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Disrupted continental environments around the Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary: introduction of the tener event
Prestianni, C.; Sautois, M.; Denayer, J. (2016). Disrupted continental environments around the Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary: introduction of the tener event. Geol. Belg. 19(1-2): 135-145. https://dx.doi.org/10.20341/gb.2016.013
In: Geologica Belgica. Geologica Belgica: Brussels . ISSN 1374-8505; e-ISSN 2034-1954, more
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Keyword
    Marine/Coastal
Author keywords
    Hangenberg Biocrisis; Strunian; Famennnian; Tournaisian; stratigraphy;bioevent; extinctions

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  • Prestianni, C., more
  • Sautois, M.
  • Denayer, J., more

Abstract
    Recent refinements of the palynological stratigraphic scheme around the Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary in southern Belgium result in new questions on the effect of the Hangenberg Biocrisis on spores and on the validity of some ‘biozones’. Verrucosisporites nitidus, the guide taxa of the last Devonian palynozone (LN zone) is lacking in many sections and its presence is only acknowledged in proximal settings. Hence the LN zone is considered as an ecozone rather than a biozone. Moreover, investigation of the uppermost part of the uppermost Famennian shows that the palynological assemblages is dominated by abnormal forms of Retispora lepidophyta, notably by R. lepidophyta var. tener which seems to be characteristic of this interval in Western Europe. It is thus proposed to introduce the global tener event as a potential marker of the Hangenberg Biocrisis on land and in proximal marine settings. This profusion of abnormal spores is thought to be related to climatic variation possibly in link with global cooling below the Devonian-Carboniferous Boundary.

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