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Original Articles

Typification of Eocene–Oligocene diatom taxa proposed by Grove & Sturt (1886–1887) from the Oamaru Diatomite

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Pages 363-408 | Received 13 Feb 2017, Accepted 31 Aug 2017, Published online: 30 Nov 2017
 

Abstract

The so-called Oamaru Diatomite dates from approximately the Eocene–Oligocene Transition (∼34 million years ago), which is widely regarded as one of the most important climatic events of the entire Cenozoic era due to global cooling and the onset of continental-scale Antarctic glaciations. It also represents one of the richest fossil diatom deposits ever known and was first made famous owing to a series of diatom papers by Grove & Sturt. Based primarily on the collection of Sturt, supplemented by slides mounted by Grove, all curated in The Natural History Museum, we consider all 108 diatom taxa from the Oamaru Diatomite that were proposed in these seminal papers by Grove & Sturt and designate type specimens for 87 taxa that were not typified by previous workers, and for which nomenclatural types could be established. Light photomicrographs of all specimens interpreted as types are presented next to reproductions of the line drawings from Grove & Sturt publications to aid future workers on the Oamaru Diatomite, and on diatom evolution across this critical climatic phase of the Palaeogene period.

Acknowledgements

This work was inspired by discussions with the late Frithjof A.S. Sterrenburg, who also kindly provided important information on the contents of the Kinker Collection, Amsterdam. We thank Jovita Yesilyurt, Edgley Cesar, Jo Wilbraham and Silvia Pressel for their assistance with BM collections and microscopy. Elisabeth Fourtanier, Wayne Barrar, John Barron, David Harwood, Paul-Rainer Heck, and J. Patrick Kociolek generously supplied rare works of literature necessary for this study. Two anonymous reviewers are thanked for their comments.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This work was supported by a European Commission Synthesys grant no. GB-TAF3498.

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