4. An alternative record
• Calcareous microfossils such as
coccolithophores have land-based and deep
sea records
• i.e., two diversity records and two rock
records
• What is the relationship between these
records?
• How much does the rock record influence
diversity patterns?
5. The database
• Study groups are Coccolithophores and
planktic Foraminifera
• Novel compilation from North Atlantic
• Compiled from 40 years ODP/DSDP
data
• 64,077+ occs from 20,723+ samples
• High temporal resolution (biozones)
9. Correlation tests
• First both time series were log-transformed
• Long term test:
– Simple correlation
• Short term tests:
– First differences (absolute)
– Moving average differences (relative to long
term trend)
• Degree (rho) and significance (p) of
correlations determined using Spearman
rank
20. Conclusions
• Deep sea diversity curve largely explicable
by sampling
• Apparent rise in nannofossil diversity to
present strongly associated with rise in
sampling
21. The other side of the story
• What about the land-based record for the
same groups?
• Sampling strategy based on distribution
charts from primary literature
• Rock record measure is number of localities
24. Summary
• Both land and sea have measurable rock
biases that follow different trajectories over
geological time
• Will allow a clear and explicit test of how
important a role these play in shaping our
fossil record
Hinweis der Redaktion
The history of biodiversity –based on counts of fossils sampled from the rock record and for most groups biodiversity patterns have been based on the fossil record available from land-based outcrops.
But there is a problem – a worrisome correlation exists between sampled diversity and the rock record driven by large transgression-regression cycles. As we have heard from Shanan this could be biological as much as sampling artefact - so what we need is another system where the rock record is very different so that we can resolve how important rock sampling is. Such a record exists! – in the deep-sea.
For microfossils such as coccolithophorids we have access to both a deep-sea record and a land-based record which gives us two biodiversity estimates under two different rock records which allows us to explore the relationship between rock & fossil records and pinpoint how much the rock record influences biodiversity curves. Today I’m going to concentrate on the deep sea