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  Latest Ordovician brachiopod and trilobite assemblage from Yuhang, northern Zhejiang, East China: a window on Hirnantian deep-water benthos
 
 
Titel: Latest Ordovician brachiopod and trilobite assemblage from Yuhang, northern Zhejiang, East China: a window on Hirnantian deep-water benthos
Auteur: Rong, Jia-Yu
Huang, Bing
Zhan, Ren-Bin
Harper, David A. T.
Verschenen in: Historical biology
Paginering: Jaargang 20 (2008) nr. 2 pagina's 137-148
Jaar: 2008-04
Inhoud: A moderately diverse brachiopod and trilobite assemblage, the Leangella-Dalmanitina (Songxites) Assemblage, occurs in the upper Yankou Formation (Hirnantian, probably equivalent to the Normalograptus persculptus Biozone) at Shizi Hill, Yuhang, west of Hangzhou, northern Zhejiang, E China. The brachiopods are rare, characterised by minute, thin shells with very small body cavities, preserved in mudstones as moulds. They may have inhabited quiet, deep-water and dysaerobic slope environments with low levels of nutrients, equivalent to Benthic Assemblage 5. Most genera were adapted for life in deep water and either remained there or alternatively migrated into relatively shallower habitats to evade perturbations during the first phase of the end Ordovician extinctions. The slope environments were recolonised from outer shelf and upper slope communities during the early Hirnantian, but isolated biotas may also have survived in deeper-water habitats by reducing their population size and diversity during the crisis. The Leangella-Dalmanitina (Songxites) Assemblage provides an unique Hirnantian window through which we can monitor the changes in the deep-water biofacies following the first phase of the extinctions. Significantly, parts of the deep water marine environment may have survived intact, the end Ordovician extinctions.
Uitgever: Taylor & Francis
Bronbestand: Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften
 
 

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