Journal
LETHAIA
Volume 52, Issue 3, Pages 350-369Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/let.12317
Keywords
Cambrian Explosion; Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event; ichnodisparity; ichnology; macroevolutionary trends
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- Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET) [PIP 112-201201-00581]
- Agencia Nacional de Promocion Cientifica y Tecnologica (ANPCyT-FONCyT) [PICT 2016-0588]
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Discovery Grants [311727-15, 311726-13]
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Feeding trace fossils, produced by either deposit or detritus feeders and showing radial to rosetted morphology, are all included in the same architectural category. These radial to rosette ichnofossils are widely recorded worldwide throughout the Phanerozoic and have attracted the attention of numerous ichnologists for decades. Construction of a database summarizing occurrences of radial to rosette trace fossils through the Phanerozoic shows that representatives of this category occurred for the first time during the Fortunian, which accounts for the appearance of at least 12% of the total number of ichnogenera in this category. Overall, 32% of all known rosette ichnogenera resulted from the Cambrian Explosion. A second ichnodiversity increase took place (20%) during the Ordovician. Subsequent to the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event, this architectural category shows minor fluctuations in ichnodiversity resulting in a long-term plateau. The apparent decline in ichnodiversity by the end of the Cenozoic could reflect a taphonomic artefact resulting from the difficulties of identifying cumulative trace fossils in highly bioturbated modern sediments. Our data set indicates that several radial to rosette ichnogenera (e.g. Arenituba, Dactylophycus, Gyrophyllites, Phoebichnus, Volkichnium) occurred first in shallow-marine settings and then migrated to either deeper-water or marginal-marine environments, while others (e.g. Asterichnus, Cladichnus, Dactyloidites) apparently first occurred in deep-sea environments and then migrated to shallower waters.
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