期刊
JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY
卷 18, 期 4, 页码 357-379出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2019.1623333
关键词
Nevada; Ediacaran; tubular fossils; cloudinids; Saarina; Costatubus
资金
- University of Missouri College of Arts & Science Dean's Office
- John Roy Barker and Mary Smith Barker Faculty Enhancement Fund
- National Science Foundation EAR [CAREER-1652351]
- Smithsonian Institution Peter Buck Fellowship
- Palaeontological Society Research Grant [PA-RG201703]
- NASA Astrobiology Institute Lewis and Clark Fund for Exploration and Field Research in Astrobiology
- Russian Science Foundation (RSF) [17-17-01241]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41502020]
- Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences [umc-XDB26010104]
- [EAR/IF-1636643]
Owing to their temporal position during the decline of the classic Ediacara biota and the appearance of the more recognizable metazoans of the Cambrian Period, the terminal Ediacaran (similar to 551-539 Ma) assemblages of tubular fossil forms hold potential to improve understanding of biotic turnover near the end of the Ediacaran Period. Cloudinid taxa, including the terminal Ediacaran index fossil Cloudina, are the most well studied of these Ediacaran tubular forms due to their global palaeogeographical distribution. Recent reports revealed ecosystems of tubicolous organisms from the Great Basin region, Nevada, USA, and assigned taxa to such genera as Conotubus, Gaojiashania and Wutubus, well known from contemporaneous Chinese deposits. Appreciating the role that these organisms may have played in the evolutionary history of metazoans and recognizing their potential global distribution, however, requires careful taxonomic study. Here, we detail pyritized fossils from the Deep Spring and Wood Canyon formations of Esmeralda and Nye counties, Nevada, USA, respectively. Our investigation focused on the most abundant tubular taxon from the Nevada sites, which was previously generically assigned to Conotubus. While outwardly similar in morphology to this Gaojiashan taxon, our investigation determines that those fossils previously figured as Conotubus are instead two distinct taxa. The first represents a new species of Saarina - Saarina hagadorni sp. nov. - a genus previously known only from the East European platform, and the second is established as a novel genus and species, Costatubus bibendi gen. et sp. nov.
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