Morphology and palaeoecology of a new edrioblastoid from the Furongian of China

• Autorzy: Zhu X.-J. , Zamora S. , Lefebvre B.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

A new edrioblastoid Cambroblastus guolensis is described from the Furongian (late Cambrian) Sandu Formation (South China). This represents the second occurrence of a Cambrian edrioblastoid, and the first ever reported from Asia, extending the palaeogeographic range of this very rare echinoderm grade. Surprisingly it preserves a complete stem and a distal holdfast suggesting edrioblastoids were hard substrate attachers living in soft bottom quiet environments.

• Wydawca: -
• Czasopismo: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
• Rocznik: 2014
• Tom: 59
• Numer: 4
• Opis fizyczny: p.921-926,fig.,ref.

Twórcy

autor

Zhu X.-J.

• State Key Laboratory on Palaeontology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China

autor

Zamora S.

• National Museum of Natural History, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, 20013- 7012, USA
• Instituto Geologico y Minero de Espana, C/Manuel Lasala, 44, 9ºB, 50006, Zaragoza, Spain

autor

Lefebvre B.

• UMR CNRS 5276, Geode, Universite Lyon 1, 2 rue Dubois, 69622 Villeurbanne cedex, France

Bibliografia

• Bather, F.A. 1900. The Echinoderma. In: E.R. Lankester (ed.), A Treatise on Zoology, 3. 344 pp. Adam & Charles Black, London.
• Bather, F.A. 1914. Studies in Edrioasteroidea. 5. Steganoblastus. Geological Magazine 1: 193–203.
• Bell, B.M. 1976. A study of North American Edrioasteroidea. New York State Museum, Memoirs 21: 1–447.
• Bell, B.M. 1982. Edrioasteroids. In: J. Sprinkle (ed.), Echinoderm Faunas from the Bromide Formation (Middle Ordovician) of Oklahoma. The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions Monograph 1: 297–306.
• Billings, E. 1858. On the Asteriadae of the Lower Silurian rocks of Canada. Geological Survey of Canada, Canadian Organic Remains 3: 75–85.
• Bruguière, J.G. 1791. Tableau Encyclopédique et Méthodique des Trois Règnes de la Nature. Contenant l’Helminthologie, ou les Vers Infusoires, les Vers Intestins, les Vers Mollusques, etc. Septième livraison. 180 pp. Panckoucke, Paris.
• Daley, P.E.J. 1996. The first solute which is attached as an adult: a Mid-Cambrian fossil from Utah with echinoderm and chordate affinities. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 117: 405–440.
• Fay, R.O. 1962. Edrioblastoidea, a new class of Echinodermata. Journal of Paleontology 36: 201–205.
• Fay, R.O. 1967. Edrioblastoids. In: R.C. Moore (ed.), Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part S, Echinodermata 1, 289–292. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence.
• Guensburg, T.E. and Sprinkle, J. 1994. Revised phylogeny and functional interpretation of the Edrioasteroidea based on new taxa from the Early and Middle Ordovician of western Utah. Fieldiana (Geology) 29: 1–43.
• Guensburg, T.E., Mooi, R., Sprinkle, J., David, B., and Lefebvre, B. 2010. Pelmatozoan arms from the mid-Cambrian of Australia: bridging the gap between brachioles and brachials? Comment: there is no bridge. Lethaia 43: 432–440.
• Han, N.R. and Chen, G.Y. 2008. New stylophorans (Echinodermata) from the Upper Cambrian of Guangxi, South China. Science in China, Series D: Earth Sciences 51: 181–186.
• Hudson, G.H. 1925. The need of improved technique in illustration. Journal of Geology 33: 642–657.
• Hudson, G.H. 1927. The surface characteristics of Astrocystites (Steganoblastus) ottawaensis. Report of the State Geologist on the Mineral Industries and Geology of Vermont 15: 97–110.
• Klein, J.T. 1734. Naturalis dispositio echinodermatum. Accessit lucubratiuncula de aculeis echinorum marinorum, cum spicilegio de belemnitis. 79 pp. Schreiber, Gedani.
• Lefebvre, B. and Fatka, O. 2003. Palaeogeographical and palaeoecological aspects of the Cambro-Ordovician radiation of echinoderms in Gondwanan Africa and peri-Gondwanan Europe. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 195: 73–97.
• Lerosey-Aubril, R., Ortega-Hernández, J., and Zhu, X.-J. 2013. The first aglaspidid sensu stricto from the Cambrian of China (Sandu Formation, Guangxi). Geological Magazine 150: 565–571.
• Lin, J.-P., Ausich, W.I., and Zhao, Y.-L. 2008. Settling strategy of stalked echinoderms from the Kaili Biota (Middle) Cambrian, Guizhou Province, South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 258: 213–221.
• Mintz, L.W. 1970. The Edrioblastoidea: re-evaluation based on a new specimen of Astrocystites from the Middle Ordovician of Ontario. Journal of Paleontology 44: 872–880.
• Parsley, R.L. 2012. Ontogeny, functional morphology, and comparative morphology of lower (Stage 4) and basal Stage 5 Cambrian gogiids, Guizhou Province, China. Journal of Paleontology 86: 569–583.
• Paul, C.R.C. 1976. Palaeogeography of primitive echinoderms in the Ordovician. In: M.G. Bassett (ed.), The Ordovician System: Proceedings of a Palaeontological Association Symposium, Birmingham, September 1974, 553–574. University of Wales Press and National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.
• Piveteau, J. 1953. Classe des édrioastéroïdes. In: J. Piveteau (ed.), Traité de Paléontologie, Tome 3, 651–657. Masson, Paris.
• Smith, A.B. and Jell, P.A. 1990. Cambrian edrioasteroids from Australia and the origin of starfishes. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 28: 715–778.
• Sprinkle, J. 1973. Morphology and Evolution of Blastozoan Echinoderms. 283 pp. Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge.
• Sumrall, C.D. and Zamora, S. 2011. Ordovician edrioasteroids from Morocco: faunal exchanges across the Rheic Ocean. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 9: 524–454.
• Sumrall, C.D., Heredia, S., Rodríguez, C.M., and Mestre A.I. 2013. The first report of South American edrioasteroids and the paleoecology and ontogeny of rhenopyrgid echinoderms. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58: 763–776.
• Webby, B.D. 1968. Astrocystites distans sp. nov., an edrioblastoid from the Ordovician of eastern Australia. Palaeontology 11: 513–525.
• Webby, B.D., Percival, I.G., Edgecombe, G.D., Cooper, R.A., Vandenberg, A.H.M., Pickett, J.W., Pojeta, J., Jr., Playford, G., Winchester-Seeto, T., Young, G.C., Zhen, Y.Y., Nicoll, R.S., Ross, J.R.P., and Schallreuter, R. 2000. Ordovician palaeobiogeography of Australasia. Memoir of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 23: 63–126.
• Whiteaves, J.F. 1897. Description of a new genus and species of cystidean from the Trenton Limestone at Ottawa. Canadian Record of Sciences 7: 287–292.
• Zamora, S. and Smith, A.B. 2010. The oldest isorophid edrioasteroid (Echinodermata) and the evolution of attachment strategies in Cambrian edrioasteroids. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 55: 487–494.
• Zamora, S., Gozalo, R., and Liñán, E. 2009. Middle Cambrian gogiids (Eocrinoidea, Echinodermata) from Northeast Spain: taxonomy, palaeoecology and palaeogeographic implications. Acta Paleontologica Polonica 54: 253–265.
• Zhan, R.-B., Jin, J., Rong, J.-Y., Zhu, X.-J., and Han, N.-R. 2010. Late Cambrian brachiopods from Jingxi, Guangxi Province, South China. Alcheringa 34: 99–133.
• Zhou, Z.Y. and Zhen, Y.Y. 2008. Trilobite Record of China. 402 pp. Science Press, Beijing.
• Zhou, Z.Y., Zhen, Y.Y., Peng, S.C., and Zhu, X.-J. 2008. Notes on Cambrian trilobite biogeography of China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 47: 385–392.
• Zhu, X.-J., Hughes, N.C., and Peng, S.C. 2007. On a new species of Shergoldia Zhang & Jell, 1987 (Trilobita), the family Tsinaniidae and the order Asaphida. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists 34: 243–253.
• Zhu, X.-J., Hughes, N.C., and Peng, S.C. 2010. Ventral structure and ontogeny of the late Furongian (Cambrian) trilobite Guangxiaspis guangxiensis Zhou, 1977 and the diphyletic origin of the median suture. Journal of Paleontology 84: 493–504.

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.4202/app.2012.0116