List of Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgments

1 Late Paleocene-Early Eocene Climatic and Biotic Evolution: An Overview

William A. Berggren

Spencer Lucas

Marie-Pierre Aubry

2 The Paleocene/Eocene Epoch/Series Boundary: Chronostratigraphic Framework and Estimated Geochronology

William A. Berggren

Marie-Pierre Aubry

3 Stratigraphic (Dis)Continuity and Temporal Resolution of Geological Events in the Upper Paleocene-Lower Eocene Deep Sea Record

Marie-Pierre Aubry

4 Magnetostratigraphy of Upper Paleocene-Lower Eocene Marine and Terrestrial Sequences

John J. Flynn

Lisa Tauxe

5 The Tectonic and Volcanic History of the North Atlantic Region During the Paleocene-Eocene Transition: Implications for NW European and Global Biotic Events

Robert W. O'B.Knox

6 Climatic, Oceanographic, and Isotopic Consequences of the Paleocene India-Asia Collision

Richard A. Beck

Ashish Sinha

Douglas W. Burbank

William J. Sercombe

Asrar M. Khan

7 Changes in Atmospheric Circulation During the Latest Paleocene and Earliest Eocene Epochs and Some Implications for the Global Climate Regime

David K. Rea

8 The Oxygen and Carbon Isotopic Context of the Paleocene/Eocene Epoch Boundary

Richard M. Corfield

Richard D. Norris

9 Global Climate of the Late Paleocene Epoch: Modeling the Circumstances Associated with a Climatic "Event"

Lisa C. Sloan

Ellen Thomas

10 Early Paleogene Calcareous Nannoplankton Evolution: A Tale of Climatic Amelioration

Marie-Pierre Aubry

11 Trophic Models for the Well-Mixed and Poorly Mixed Warm Oceans Across the Paleocene/Eocene Epoch Boundary

Anne Boersma

Isabella Premoli Silva

Pamela Hallock

12 Biogeography of the Late Paleocene Benthic Foraminiferal Extinction

Ellen Thomas

13 Upper Paleocene-Lower Eocene Deep-Sea Radio-larian Stratigraphy and the Paleocene/Eocene Series Boundary

Annika Sanfilippo

Catherine Nigrini

14 Global Warming and Dinocyst Changes Across the Paleocene/Eocene Epoch Boundary

Jonathan P. Bujak

Henk Brinkhuis

15 Molluscan Faunas Across the Paleocene/Eocene Series Boundary in the North American Gulf Coastal Plain

David T. Dockery III

16 Late Paleocene and Early Eocene Nonmarine Molluscan Faunal Change in the Bighorn Basin, Northwestern Wyoming and South-Central Montana

Joseph H. Hartman

Barry Roth

17 Late Paleocene-Early Eocene Floral and Climatic Change in the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming

Scott L. Wing

18 Turtles Across the Paleocene/Eocene Epoch Boundary in West-Central North America

J. Howard Hutchison

19 Mammalian Faunal Composition and the Paleocene/Eocene Epoch/Series Boundary: Evidence from the Northern Bighorn Basin, Wyoming

Gregg F. Gunnell

20 Mammalian Faunal Change Across the Paleocene-Eocene Transition in Europe

Jeremy J. Hooker

21 Fossil Mammals and the Paleocene/Eocene Series Boundary in Europe, North America, and Asia

Spencer G. Lucas

Index