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DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.08.014
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Coprolites from the upper Osawa Formation (upper Spathian), northeastern Japan: Evidence for predation in a marine ecosystem 5Myr after the end-Permian mass extinction
作者: Nakajima Y.; Izumi K.
刊名: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
ISSN: 0031-0182
出版年: 2014
卷: 414
起始页码: 225
结束页码: 232
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Biotic recovery ; Coprolites ; Early Triassic ; Marine food chain ; Predation
英文摘要: Lower Triassic marine deposits, which can potentially provide important information on the diversity and trophic structure of marine ecosystems following the end-Permian mass extinction, are rarely exposed in the world. Given the sparse body fossil record from the Lower Triassic, non-body fossil evidences, such as trace fossils for example, may provide additional windows on fossil ecosystems. Herein, the authors recently found dark, amorphous lumps of various sizes, ranging from a few millimetres to approximately 7. cm in maximum dimension, from the offshore marine deposit of upper Osawa Formation (Spathian, Lower Triassic) in the South Kitakami Terrane of northeast Japan. Compared with the surrounding siliciclastic sediments, the lumps are rich in phosphate and organic carbon, and poor in silicates. Shape, mode of occurrence, bone inclusion and geochemical signatures of these lumps confirm that these are coprolites, produced not by benthic sediment feeders, but most likely by nektonic animals. Bone inclusion also suggests that carnivorous fish and/or marine reptiles, constituting the higher part of the food chain, produced at least a part of the specimens. Despite the low diversity of the known fossil vertebrates from the Osawa formation, coprolites first shed light on the predator-prey interactions in the marine ecosystem in South Kitakami Terrane 5. Myr after the end-Permian mass extinction. © 2014 Elsevier B.V.
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/69201
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作者单位: Steinmann Institute for Geology, Mineralogy and Paleontology, University of Bonn, Nussallee 8, Bonn, Germany; Department of Earth and Planetary Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo, Japan

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Nakajima Y.,Izumi K.. Coprolites from the upper Osawa Formation (upper Spathian), northeastern Japan: Evidence for predation in a marine ecosystem 5Myr after the end-Permian mass extinction[J]. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,2014-01-01,414
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