期刊
EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS
卷 178, 期 -, 页码 177-207出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.01.011
关键词
Bioturbation; Early Paleozoic; Trace fossils; Biological bulldozing; Biogeochemical cycling; Lagersditten
资金
- NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Yale University Postdoctoral Associateship
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- Amherst College John Mason Clarke Fellowship
- Dr. Janet M. Boyce Memorial Fellowship
- Society for Sedimentary Geology
- Geological Society of America
- Paleontological Society
- American Museum of Natural History
- Sigma Xi
- InfoQuest Foundation
- Evolving Earth Foundation
- Community Foundation
Bioturbation, the physical and chemical mixing of sediments by burrowing animals, is a critical engineering process in modern seafloor environments and exerts an important control on not only benthic ecology and sediment properties but also ocean-wide biogeochemical cycling. Well-mixed sediments have long been assumed to appear at the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary with the first occurrence of the index fossil and three-dimensional burrow Treptichnus pedum. However, field-based analyses, synthesizing ichnological, stratigraphic, sedimentological and taphonomic data collected from lower Paleozoic successions worldwide, indicate that sediment mixing in marine shelf environments remained limited until at least the late Silurian, 120 million years after the Precambrian-Cambrian transition. In spite of early advances in complex modes of infaunalization, mixed layer development had a much more gradual trajectory and did not occur in step with the first appearance of three-dimensional burrows. The delayed appearance of modem-style intensities of sediment reworking postdating both the Cambrian Explosion and the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event may be due to the late-stage radiation of mobile infaunal deposit-feeders (biological bulldozers) the organisms which are, in modem marine settings, the most efficient bioturbators. The protracted development of the sediment mixed layer holds important implications for contemporaneous biogeochemical cycling and oxygenation of the ocean-atmosphere system. The delayed development of intensive sediment mixing may have also mediated exceptional preservation of both fossilized soft tissues and shallow-tier trace fossils, and may therefore have contributed to the anomalous preponderance of Konservat LagerstAtten and exceptionally preserved shallow-tier trace fossils and bioglyphs characteristic of the lower Paleozoic stratigraphic record.
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