The Hauterivian is, in the geologic timescale, an age in the Early Cretaceous Epoch or a stage in the Lower Cretaceous Series. It spans the time between 132.6 ± 2 Ma and 125.77 (million years ago). The Hauterivian is preceded by the Valanginian and succeeded by the Barremian.[3]
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| Name formality | Formal | ||||||||
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| Celestial body | Earth | ||||||||
| Regional usage | Global (ICS) | ||||||||
| Time scale(s) used | ICS Time Scale | ||||||||
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| Chronological unit | Age | ||||||||
| Stratigraphic unit | Stage | ||||||||
| Time span formality | Formal | ||||||||
| Lower boundary definition | FAD of the Ammonite genus Acanthodiscus | ||||||||
| Lower boundary GSSP | La Charce, Drôme, France 44°28′10″N 5°26′37″E / 44.4694°N 5.4437°E | ||||||||
| Lower GSSP ratified | December 2019[2] | ||||||||
| Upper boundary definition | Not formally defined | ||||||||
| Upper boundary definition candidates | FAD of the Spitidiscus hugii-Spitidiscus vandeckii Ammonite group | ||||||||
| Upper boundary GSSP candidate section(s) | Río Argos, Caravaca de la Cruz, Murcia Province, Spain | ||||||||
Stratigraphic definitions
editThe Hauterivian was introduced in scientific literature by Swiss geologist Eugène Renevier in 1873. It is named after the Swiss town of Hauterive at the shore of Lake Neuchâtel.
The base of the Hauterivian is defined as the place in the stratigraphic column where the ammonite genus Acanthodiscus first appears. A reference profile for the base (a GSSP) was officially ratified by the International Union of Geological Sciences in December of 2019, and is placed in La Charce, France.[2] The top of the Hauterivian (the base of the Barremian) is at the first appearance of ammonite species Spitidiscus hugii.
In the ammonite biostratigraphy of the Tethys domain, the Hauterivian contains seven ammonite biozones:
- zone of Pseudothurmannia ohmi
- zone of Balearites balearis
- zone of Plesiospitidiscus ligatus
- zone of Subsaynella sayni
- zone of Lyticoceras nodosoplicatus
- zone of Crioceratites loryi
- zone of Acanthodiscus radiatus
Climate
editSome palaeoclimatological studies indicate that a brief ice age, known as the Hauterivian cold snap, occurred during this age. The Hauterivian cold snap appears to be associated with permafrost at high elevations and large ice sheets that potentially stretched as far south as the modern Iberian Peninsula, based on the existence of Hauterivian ice-rafted dropstones in Iberia. Cold conditions are also known to have existed in the Southern Hemisphere during the same time period, based on records from Australia. Similar cold periods with associated glaciations are also known from the earlier Valanginian and the later Aptian & early Albian periods, all contrasting with the typical image of the Cretaceous as a greenhouse period.[4][5][6][7]
References
editNotes
edit- ^ "International Chronostratigraphic Chart" (PDF). International Commission on Stratigraphy. September 2023. Retrieved December 16, 2024.
- ^ a b Mutterlose, Jörg; Rawson, Peter; Reboulet, Stéphane; Baudin, François; Bulot, Luc; Emmanuel, Laurent; Gardin, Silvia; Martinez, Mathieu; Renard, Maurice (September 2020). "The Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Hauterivian Stage (Lower Cretaceous), La Charce, southeast France". Episodes. 44 (2): 129–150. doi:10.18814/epiiugs/2020/020072. Retrieved 24 December 2020.
- ^ See Gradstein et al. (2004) for a detailed geologic timescale
- ^ Rodríguez-López, Juan Pedro; Wu, Chihua; Vishnivetskaya, Tatiana A.; Murton, Julian B.; Tang, Wenqiang; Ma, Chao (2022-12-26). "Permafrost in the Cretaceous supergreenhouse". Nature Communications. 13 (1): 7946. Bibcode:2022NatCo..13.7946R. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-35676-6. hdl:10810/60351. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 9792593. PMID 36572668.
- ^ Rodríguez-López, Juan Pedro; Liesa, Carlos L.; Luzón, Aránzazu; Muñoz, Arsenio; Mayayo, María J.; Murton, Julian B.; Soria, Ana R. (2023-10-10). "Ice-rafted dropstones at midlatitudes in the Cretaceous of continental Iberia". Geology. 52: 33–38. doi:10.1130/g51725.1. ISSN 0091-7613.
- ^ Grasby, Stephen E.; McCune, Gennyne E.; Beauchamp, Benoit; Galloway, Jennifer M. (2017-02-10). "Lower Cretaceous cold snaps led to widespread glendonite occurrences in the Sverdrup Basin, Canadian High Arctic". Geological Society of America Bulletin. 129 (7–8): 771–787. Bibcode:2017GSAB..129..771G. doi:10.1130/b31600.1. ISSN 0016-7606.
- ^ Alley, N. F.; Hore, S. B.; Frakes, L. A. (2020-11-16). "Glaciations at high-latitude Southern Australia during the Early Cretaceous". Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. 67 (8): 1045–1095. Bibcode:2020AuJES..67.1045A. doi:10.1080/08120099.2019.1590457. ISSN 0812-0099.
Literature
edit- Gradstein, F.M.; Ogg, J.G. & Smith, A.G.; (2004): A Geologic Time Scale 2004, Cambridge University Press.
External links
edit- GeoWhen Database - Hauterivian
- Mid-Cretaceous timescale, at the website of the subcommission for stratigraphic information of the ICS
- Stratigraphic chart of the Lower Cretaceous, at the website of Norges Network of offshore records of geology and stratigraphy
- Hauterivian Microfossils: 25 images of Foraminifera