The La Voulte Lagerstätte (Callovian): Evidence for a deep water setting from sponge and crinoid communities
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A Lagerstatte of Glyptocrinus decadactylus collected from the Upper Fairview Formation at Maysville, Kentucky, USA, yields new insights into the paleoautecology of camerate crinoids of the Late Ordovician. The Lagerstatte represents an autochthonous community composed of a single siltstone bed representing an obrution event and containing over 400 individual glyptocrinids that had colonized a slight topographic rise of relatively high energy within the deep subtidal zone. The high density of the crinoid community was accommodated by tiering, in which the crinoids presumably employed macroalgae (not preserved), occasionally bryozoans, and the columns of earlier-settled specimens as attachment sites; differing column lengths positioned the crinoids at various levels within the community. A further strategy for crowded conditions may have been small body size. Storm-induced turbidity flows led to the suspension of silts by a lofting plume that smothered the crinoids in their habitat. The densely packed crinoid-macroalgae assemblage may have baffled the sediment plume and induced deposition, facilitating burial. Some specimens apparently died shortly prior to burial, suggesting more than one earlier killing event, likely related to the storm that ultimately caused the obrution. Other specimens were killed by the obrution event and subjected to little or no subsequent scavenging or decay after burial, leading to excellent preservation.
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Abstract The Kalana Lagerstätte of early Aeronian (Llandovery, Silurian) age in central Estonia preserves a diverse shallow marine biota dominated by non-calcified algae. This soft-tissue flora and decalcified and calcified crinoids are preserved in situ, in a lens of microlaminated, dolomitized micrite interbedded in a sequence of dolomitized packstones and wackestones. Although the Lagerstätte is dominated by non-calcified algae, crinoids (together with brachiopods and gastropods) are among the most common organisms that were originally comprised of a carbonate skeleton. Two new crinoids are described from this unit, Kalanacrinus mastikae n. gen. n. sp. (large camerate) and Tartucrinus kalanaensis n. gen. n. sp. (small disparid). Interestingly, these two crinoids display contrasting preservation, with the more common large camerate preserved primarily as a decalcified organic residue, whereas the smaller disparid is preserved primarily in calcite. Preservation was assessed using elemental mapping of C, Ca, S, and Si. Columns have the highest portion of Ca, once living soft tissue is indicated by C, S was dispersed as pyrite or associated with organics, and Si is probably associated with clay minerals in the matrix. This new fauna increases our understanding of the crinoid radiation on Baltica following Late Ordovician extinctions. UUID: http://zoobank.org/fb1f98c4-d35a-43f4-aa0d-75e4f8154a13
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Abstract The Upper Ordovician (lower Katian) Bobcaygeon and Verulam formations from the Lake Simcoe region of Ontario contain a highly diverse echinoderm assemblage that is herein recognized as a Konservat-Lagerstätte. Although fossil crinoids have long been recognized from these formations, the fauna has not received a comprehensive taxonomic evaluation since Springer’s classic 1911 monograph. Recent extensive collection and preparation of new material from the Bobcaygeon and Verulam formations near Brechin, Ontario recovered numerous exceptionally preserved crinoid specimens with arms, stems, and attachment structures intact. The Brechin Lagerstätte is the most taxonomically diverse Katian crinoid fauna, with more than 20 crinoid genera represented in this collection. Here, all dicyclic crinoids belonging to subclass Camerata from the Brechin Lagerstätte are evaluated. The following four genera and seven species are described from the fauna, including one new genus and four new species: Reteocrinus stellaris , Reteocrinus alveolatus , Archaeocrinus sundayae n. sp., Archaeocrinus maraensis n. sp., Priscillacrinus elegans n. gen. n. sp., Cleiocrinus regius , and Cleiocrinus lepidotus n. sp. The exceptional preservation of this collection provides an opportunity to describe more fully the morphologic and ontogenetic details of known Ordovician crinoid taxa, to conduct a taxonomic re-evaluation of many species, to describe new taxa, and to provide a framework for subsequent studies of crinoid community paleoecology. UUID: http://zoobank.org/e3e268a7-88e5-43cd-84ea-b40df45e8281
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Abstract Upper Ordovician (Katian) strata of the Lake Simcoe region of Ontario record a spectacularly diverse and abundant echinoderm fauna known as the Brechin Lagerstätte. Despite recognition as the most taxonomically diverse Katian crinoid paleocommunity, the Brechin Lagerstätte has received relatively little taxonomic study since Frank Springer published his classic monograph on the “Kirkfield fauna” in 1911. Using a new collection of exceptionally preserved material, we evaluate all dicyclic inadunate crinoids occurring in the Brechin Lagerstätte, which is predominantly comprised of cladids (Eucladida and Flexibilia). We document 15 species across 11 genera, including descriptions of two new genera and four new species. New taxa include Konieckicrinus brechinensis n. gen. n. sp., K . josephi n. gen. n. sp., Simcoecrinus mahalaki n. gen. n. sp., and Dendrocrinus simcoensis n. sp. Although cladids are not commonly considered major components of the Early Paleozoic Crinoid Macroevolutionary Fauna, which is traditionally conceived as dominated by disparids and diplobathrid camerates, they are the most diverse major lineage of crinoids occurring in the Brechin Lagerstätte. This unexpected result highlights the important roles of specimen-based taxonomy and systematic revisions in the study of large-scale diversity patterns. UUID: http://zoobank.org/09dda7c2-f2c5-4411-93be-3587ab1652ab
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<p>The Australian-Antarctic Ridge (AAR) is the spreading boundary between the Australian and the Antarctic plates, and extended from the Southeast Indian Ridge (SEIR) to the Macquarie Triple Junction (MTJ) of Australian-Antarctic-Pacific plates. The KR1 is the easternmost segment of AAR, with a quite large variation in axial morphology. In this study, we identified 3-volcanic seamount chains aligned linearly parallel to the spreading direction of the KR1. The spatial distribution, morphology and summit types for the isolated volcanic structures composing the seamount chains were determined. Eastern seamount chain has the 3-isolated volcanoes which are significantly steep and located at a considerable distance away from the ridge-axis. The central seamount chain is morphologically connected to the ridge-axis, and relatively small and less isolated compared to the other seamount chains. Western seamount chain shows a massive volcanic eruption with significantly large volcanic structures. In usual, a seamount is formed on pre-existing seafloor, and the observed magnetic signal of the seamount is correspond to that of the underlying seafloor when the seamount formation occurs nearly simultaneously with the formation of the underlying seafloor. However, if the observed magnetic anomalies of the seamount have a large misfit or/and reversed geomagnetic polarities with respect to the modeled magnetic anomalies of the underlying seafloor, it implies that there is a sufficiently large temporal gap between the formations of the seamount and the underlying seafloor. Applying this assumption, we forced the relatively younger geomagnetic history to move into the seamount having such misfits, and finally reduced the misfits. As a result, our magnetic model for the seamount chains shows that the isolated volcanoes were mostly originated from off-axis volcanisms of 7~20 km, and have a time span of less than ~600 kyrs to build. In particular, it is assumed that the seamount formations were intensively active during four-periods of 0.3~0.8 Ma, 0.9~1.1 Ma, 1.6~2.1 Ma and 2.2~2.7 Ma.</p>
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