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Sympatric speciation and phyletic change in Globorotalia truncatulinoides

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2016

David Lazarus ,
Heinz Hilbrecht ,
Cinzia Spencer-Cervato  and
Hans Thierstein
David Lazarus
Affiliation:
Geologisches Institut, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule-Zentrum, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Heinz Hilbrecht
Affiliation:
Geologisches Institut, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule-Zentrum, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Cinzia Spencer-Cervato
Affiliation:
Geologisches Institut, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule-Zentrum, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland
Hans Thierstein
Affiliation:
Geologisches Institut, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule-Zentrum, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland
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Abstract

Speciation processes are only rarely studied with fossil materials, even though in principle hypotheses of speciation patterns are most directly testable in the fossil record. We quantitatively document in two widely separated South Pacific DSDP holes the mid-Pliocene speciation of the planktonic foraminifer Globorotalia truncatulinoides. Speciation, with continuous geographic co-occurrence of ancestor and descendant forms, occurred simultaneously at both localities over a period of ~500,000 years. This suggests a sympatric speciation process that involved a large, geographically extensive population. Globorotalia truncatulinoides underwent its most rapid and extensive evolutionary change between ~2.8 and 2.5 Ma. This time interval corresponds to the development of northern hemisphere glaciation, suggesting that climate-controlled paleoceanographic change may have played a significant role in the evolution of G. truncatulinoides.

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Paleobiology , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , Winter 1995 , pp. 28 - 51
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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