Global cooling initiated the Middle-Late Mississippian biodiversity crisis
Global cooling initiated the Middle-Late Mississippian biodiversity crisis
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全球变冷引发密西西比中晚期生物多样性危机
DOI:
10.1016/j.gloplacha.2022.103852
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发表时间:
2022-05
影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
Xiangdong Wang
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作者:
Le Yao;Ganqing Jiang;Horng-sheng Mii;Yifang Lin;Markus Aretz;Jitao Chen;Yuping Qi;Wei Lin;Qiulai Wang;Xiangdong Wang
During the Mississippian period, metazoan reefs and other marine faunas gradually recovered from the Late Devonian mass extinctions and reached a peak in the late Visean (~334–332 Ma). Faunal diversity started to decline from the latest Visean (~332–330 Ma) through Serpukhovian (~330–323 Ma), with significant genera/species losses and ecosystem reconstruction. This Middle-Late Mississippian biodiversity crisis (M-LMBC) was thought to have been caused by global cooling associated with the late Paleozoic Ice Age (LPIA), but existing sedimentological and temperature proxy data suggest that the global cooling event—that marks the onset of the main glaciation phase of LPIA—happened either ~4 Myr before or ~ 1–5 Myr after the initial biodiversity decline at ~332 Ma. Here, we report oxygen isotope data of diagenetically screened, well-preserved brachiopod calcite (δ 18 O calcite ) from late Visean-Serpukhovian (or Middle-Late Mississippian; ~334–323 Ma) strata in South China where biodiversity data are well documented. The δ 18 O calcite data reveal a ~ 2.0‰ positive shift from −4.6 ± 0.2‰ to −2.7 ± 0.5‰ with an estimated ~4.7–5.5 °C drop in sea surface temperature (SST) during ~332.5–331.5 Ma in the late Visean. This cooling event coincides with fast decline of metazoan reef abundance, followed by decrease of benthic faunal diversity. The δ 18 O calcite data, in combination with calibrated sedimentological and biodiversity data, demonstrate the coupling between late Visean (~332 Ma) onset of the main glaciation phase of the LPIA and initiation of the M-LMBC. • Brachiopod oxygen isotopes document a cooling event with ~4.7–5.5 °C drop in sea surface temperature during 332.5–331.5 Ma. • This cooling event coincides with fast decline of metazoan reef abundance and benthic faunal diversity. • Late Visean (~332 Ma) onset of the main glaciation phase of the late Paleozoic Ice Age initiated biodiversity crisis.
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影响因子:
1.8
作者:
I. Somerville
通讯作者:
I. Somerville
DOI:
10.1144/gsl.sp.1964.001.01.21
发表时间:
1964
期刊:
Geological Society, London, Special Publications
影响因子:
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作者:
E. H. Francis;A. W. Woodland
通讯作者:
E. H. Francis;A. W. Woodland
影响因子:
5.8
作者:
S. Stanley;M. Powell
通讯作者:
S. Stanley;M. Powell
DOI:
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发表时间:
1984
期刊:
--
影响因子:
--
作者:
C. Sandberg;R. Gutschick
通讯作者:
C. Sandberg;R. Gutschick
影响因子:
5.8
作者:
R. Larson
通讯作者:
R. Larson