期刊
GONDWANA RESEARCH
卷 25, 期 3, 页码 966-974出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2013.01.007
关键词
Sedentary habit; Anthozoa-like animals; Soft substrate; Chengjiang Lagerstatte; Cambrian
资金
- 973 Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China [2013CB837100]
- Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [J1210006, 40802011, 40830208, 40602003]
- 111 Project [P201102007]
- Major State Basic Research Development Program of the People's Republic of China
Substrates have perpetually played a crucial role in shaping the morphology of animal bodies, particularly the sedentary apparatus of benthic suspension feeders. In-situ preservation of sedentary forms from Cambrian Lagerstatten, especially the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstatte, Yunnan Province, southwestern China, provides a unique opportunity for studying ancient interactions between the benthos and their substrates, The sedentary apparatuses of anthozoa-like animals Xianguangia sinica Chen & Erdtmann, 1991, Archotuba conoidalis Hou et al., 1999 and Archisaccophyllia kunmingensis Hou et al., 2005 from the Chengjiang Lagerstatte are investigated in their sedimentary context. X sinica bears a cylindrical, rigid column and a basal, rounded, cuticularized attachment disc that partially attached into the soft muddy substrate; A. kunmingensis has a prominent, flexible pedal-shaped disc that attached directly to the substrate by expanding its disc surface area; whereas A. conoidalis has a unique, posterior-tapering tube and probably might have secreted mucus to firmly attach to the 'sclerotized' substrates. These three sedentary taxa employed different adaptive strategies, i.e., the 'iceberg', the 'snowshoe' and one newly defined but later widespread in Phanerozoic period, the 'anchoring-nail', to cope with the soft substrates. Furthermore, the anchoring-nail mode, sclerite-sticking behavior represented by Archotuba is a Phanerozoic innovative strategy in response to the appearance of pelagic larvae and small shelly fossils, especially to the first widespread biomineralization event at the beginning of the Cambrian, whereas the other two modes have already developed for about 90 Ma from the Ediacaran. (C) 2013 International Association for Gondwana Research. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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