Post-extinction diversification patterns of brachiopods in the early-middle Llandovery, Silurian
Post-extinction diversification patterns of brachiopods in the early-middle Llandovery, Silurian
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志留纪兰多弗里早中期腕足动物灭绝后的多样化模式
DOI:
10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.12.025
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2018
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Rong Jia-Yu
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作者:
Huang Bing;Jin Jisuo;Rong Jia-Yu
Network and frequency distribution analyses of global brachiopod occurrences in the earliest Silurian (Rhuddanian–Aeronian) revealed that brachiopod recovery from the end-Ordovician mass extinction during the early–late Rhuddanian was represented mainly by the reestablishment of Late Ordovician cosmopolitan holdover taxa. Brachiopods nearly doubled their generic diversity from Rhuddanian to Aeronian, owing to the radiation of both endemic and cosmopolitan taxa, associated with an overall post-glacial amelioration of global environment and increased habitat heterogeneity as a result of marine transgressions and expansion of epeiric seas. A drastic turnover from the Ordovician-type to Silurian-type brachiopod faunas took place in the Aeronian, several million years after the terminal Ordovician mass extinction. Compared with the orders of orthides and strophomenides that radiated and predominated in the Ordovician, the atrypides and pentamerides displayed pulses of drastic diversification from the Rhuddanian to Aeronian, mainly in tropically located paleoplates, to become the most abundant and diverse brachiopod orders in the Silurian. Atrypides recovered in the early Rhuddanian, whereas diversification of pentamerides was delayed until the Aeronian and becoming widespread in South China, Kazakhstan terranes, Baltica, Avalonia, and Laurentia.