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- Title
Primitive Ordovician (Floian) echinoderms from Sandu, Guizhou Province, South China, and their significance.
- Authors
Paul, Christopher R. C.; Donovan, Stephen K.; Muir, Lucy A.; Botting, Joseph P.; Lin, Jih‐Pai; Zhang, Yuandong
- Abstract
Pelmatozoans diversified primarily during the Middle and Late Ordovician Period, with Early Ordovician records being much more limited, resulting in many gaps in our knowledge of the early stages of their diversification. Dissociated pelmatozoan ossicles have been found abundantly in one section in the Tonggao Formation ( Tetragraptus approximatus Biozone, Floian, Early Ordovician). Most of the ossicles are thecal plates and stem ossicles from hemicosmitoid and glyptocystitoid cystoids. Thecal plates of ' Cheirocrinus' sp., Polycosmites sp., and other plates of uncertain affinity are described. A different ossicle type, Pentagonopentagonalis (col.), may represent crinoid remains; this would be one of the earliest occurrences of the class. The thecal ossicles and columnals are all considered, as both sets of data are desirable to determine the most complete estimate of generic diversity. The echinoderm ossicles may have been transported in from shallower water palaeoenvironments and clusters of ossicles may represent coprolites or regurgitates. Estimates of Early Ordovician palaeogeography that place this site at 30°S or near the palaeoequator are supported by the physiological requirements of the primitive echinoderms described herein. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
YANGTZE River (China); ORDOVICIAN Period; FOSSIL pelmatozoa; CRINOIDEA; GRAPTOLITES; FOSSIL arthropods
- Publication
Geological Journal, 2016, Vol 51, Issue 1, p143
- ISSN
0072-1050
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/gj.2615