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Predation due to changes in environment: Ostracod provinciality at the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum in North and West Africa and the Middle East

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Predation in Organisms

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This study successfully interprets the ostracod provinciality associated with the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum (PETM) in North and West Africa and the Middle East. The results indicate that the West African Province (after Elewa 2002b) demonstrates a distinct local turnover in ostracod assemblages, due to predation activity associated with the high temperature at the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Simultaneously, the South Tethyan Province (after Elewa 2002b) exemplifies a minor faunal change in ostracods as a result of oxygen depletion during the late Paleocene-early Eocene interval. While, Egyptian ostracod assemblages show evidence of faunal adaptability at the Paleocene-Eocene boundary. On the whole, a reduced ostracod migration rate through the Trans- Saharan Seaway has been detected between the WAP, from one side, and the STP and Egypt, from the other side, just at the end of the late Paleocene and the earliest Eocene times. Notably, Cytherella showed distinct reaction against high predation activity that associated the oxygen depletion occurred during the PETM in the South Tethyan Province.

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Elewa, A.M.T. (2007). Predation due to changes in environment: Ostracod provinciality at the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum in North and West Africa and the Middle East. In: Elewa, A.M.T. (eds) Predation in Organisms. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-46046-6_2

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