期刊
EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS
卷 178, 期 -, 页码 105-135出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.earscirev.2018.01.013
关键词
Eumetazoa; Colonies; Early evolution; Ediacaran; Cambrian; Ordovician
资金
- NSF [PLR1341612]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [GE 549/22.1]
- Wadsworth Center's Electron Microscopy Core Facility
Re-evaluation of eumetazoan modular coloniality gives a new perspective to Ediacaran Ordovician animal diversification. Highly integrated eumetazoan colonies (porpitids [chondrophorines], pennatulacean octocorals, anthozoans) prove to be unknown in the Ediacaran. Ediacaran Evolutionary Radiation (EER, new term) fossils include macroscopic and multicellular remains that cannot be compellingly related to any modern group. Claims of eumetazoan coloniality in the Ediacaran are questionable. The subsequent Cambrian Evolutionary Radiation (CER, terminal Ediacaran late early Cambrian) records appearance and diversification of deep burrowers and a relatively abrupt development of biomineralization. The CER began in a transition zone that spans the Ediacaran Cambrian boundary and includes the final few million years of the Ediacaran. The early CER has pseudocolonial(?) Corumbella that may be related to some Phanerozoic taxa (conulariids) and records appearance of the first macroscopic biomineralised organisms (Cloudina, Namacalathus, Namapoikea), which may not be eumetazoans. Modular eumetazoans dominate and define many Ordovician and younger habitats (coral, bryozoan, sabellitid reefs; pelagic larvaceans, salps, early middle Palaeozoic graptolites), but eumetazoan coloniality largely missed the EER and CER. All purported Ediacaran Ordovician porpitids (chondophorines) and pennatulaceans are not colonial eumetazoans. Only in the late early Cambrian (late CER) or early middle Cambrian do a few modular colonial eumetazoans first occur as fossils. These include Sphenothallus (available evidence precludes Torellella coloniality), some corals (colonial coralomorphs), and lower middle Cambrian graptolithoids. Modular eumetazoan colonies (corals, graptolithoids) in the late early and early middle Cambrian (late Epoch 2 early Epoch 3) and appearance of mid-water predators (cephalopods, euconodonts) and bryozoans in the late Cambrian earliest Ordovician (late Furongian early Tremadocian) are the root for the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Interval (GOBI, new term) and diverse later Phanerozoic communities.
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