DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.07.016
论文题名: Post-extinction recovery and diversification of reef-dwelling brachiopod communities: Examples from the lower Silurian of Hudson Bay Basin, Canada
作者: Gushulak C.A.C. ; Jin J.
刊名: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
ISSN: 0031-0182
出版年: 2017
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Attawapiskat formation
; Paleoecology
; Paleolatitudinal diversity gradient
; Telychian
英文摘要: Ziegler's (1965) early Silurian brachiopod community zones and Boucot's (1975) Benthic Assemblages have been instrumental in determining the community structures of early-middle Paleozoic level-bottom communities, but are difficult to apply to reef ecosystems due to the mixing of level-bottom community assemblages in these systems. In this study, Shannon and Simpson diversity levels were calculated for reef-dwelling brachiopod faunas from several North American and one European localities. Reef-dwelling brachiopod diversity collapsed at the end of the Ordovician and did not recover until the mid-Aeronian when modest diversity reef faunas appeared in the higher tropics. Reef-dwelling brachiopods did not achieve high diversity levels until the Telychian when reefs invaded the paleoequatorially located Hudson Bay and Moose River basins. The Attawapiskat Formation (Telychian) contains the earliest known coral-stromatoporoid reef complex with associated high-diversity brachiopod faunas. These faunas were separated into nine community associations through clustering and principal component analyses. These associations can be further grouped into a level-bottom-type and a cryptic-type based on dominant brachiopod taxa, diversity levels, average shell size, and substrate type. Surprisingly, the large species Pentameroides septentrionalis was able to thrive in the relatively flat and open spaces of inter-reef areas and among frame-building corals and stromatoporoids within reef cores. The absence of Stricklandia within the Attawapiskat Formation is due to the high water temperature of the equatorial seas which were too warm to be invaded by this cool-water dependent genus. In addition, the presence of deep-water Clorinda and Gypidula in the shallow-water Attawapiskat reefs is explained by the lack of hurricane-grade storms in the equatorial region, which would be comparable to the quiet-water conditions below storm wave base in higher latitudes. © 2017 Elsevier B.V. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/68123
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作者单位: Department of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada
Recommended Citation:
Gushulak C.A.C.,Jin J.. Post-extinction recovery and diversification of reef-dwelling brachiopod communities: Examples from the lower Silurian of Hudson Bay Basin, Canada[J]. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,2017-01-01