Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Home
  • Home
EnglishFrançais
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh

Article contents

Bradoriida (Arthropoda) from the early Cambrian of North Greenland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

David J. Siveter ,
Mark Williams ,
John S. Peel  and
Derek J. Siveter
David J. Siveter
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE17RH, UK
Mark Williams
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE17RH, UK
John S. Peel
Affiliation:
Institute of Earth Sciences, Department of Historical Geology and Palaeontology, University of Uppsala, Norbyvägen 22, S-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden
Derek J. Siveter
Affiliation:
The University Museum, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PW, UK
Get access
Rights & Permissions[Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Marine shelf siliciclastics of the early Cambrian Buen Formation of North Greenland have yielded the earliest abundant, well localised Bradoriida (Arthropoda) from the Laurentian part of North America: the shelf-dwelling Petrianna gen. nov. Petrianna apparently has a fairly rigid, phosphatic shell. Its assignment to the Cambriidae, a family markedly dissimilar morphologically from the phosphatocopines (the only Bradoriida hitherto regarded as having a primary phosphatic shell), implies rejection of the criterion of carapace composition in the ordinal/subordinal classification of Bradoriida.

Petrianna confirms the Bradoriida as a consistent component of the earliest arthropod faunas. Cambriids are currently known only from the early Cambrian of Greenland, Siberia and China and offer potential for correlation. Cambriid occurrences span parts of the Redlichiid, Olenellid and Bigotinid trilobite faunal realms but are known only from tropical/subtropical regions, thus indicating possible palaeolatitudinal controls on their distribution.

Keywords

Cambrian Ostracoda Bradoriida Greenland biostratigraphy palaeogeography palaeoecology
Type
Research Article
Information
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 86 , Issue 2 , 1995 , pp. 113 - 121
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1995

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below.
If you should have access and can't see this content please contact technical support.

References

Bengtson, S., Conway, Morris S., Cooper, B. J., Jell, P. A. & Runnegar, B. N. 1990. Early Cambrian fossils from South Australia. MEM ASSOC AUSTRALAS PALAEONTOL 9, 364pp.Google Scholar
Bolton, T. E. & Copeland, M. J. 1963. Cambrotrypa and Bradoria from the middle Cambrian of western Canada. J PALEONTOL 37, 1069–70.Google Scholar
Brasier, M. D. & Cowie, J. W. 1989. Other areas: North-west Canada: California, Nevada, and Mexico; Morocco, Spain, and France. In Cowie, J. W. & Brasier, M. D. (eds) The Precambrian-Cambrian Boundary. OXFORD MONOGR GEOL & GEOPHYS 12, 105–14. Oxford: Clarendon Press.Google Scholar
Briggs, D. E. G. 1983. Affinities and early evolution of the Crustacea: the evidence of the Cambrian fossils. In Schram, F. R. (ed.) Crustacean phylogeny, 1–22. Rotterdam: A.A. Balkema.Google Scholar
Bryant, I. D. & Pickerill, R. K. 1990. Lower Cambrian trace fossils from the Buen Formation of central North Greenland: preliminary observations. RAPP GRØNLANDS GEOL UNDERS 147, 44–62.Google Scholar
Chen, Junyuan, Hou, Xianguang & Erdtmann, B. D. 1989. New softbodied fossil fauna near the base of the Cambrian system at Chengjiang, eastern Yunnan, China. In Chinese Academy of Sciences (ed.) Developments in geoscience, contribution to 28th International Geological Congress, 1989, Washington D.C. USA, 265 77. Beijing: Science Press.Google Scholar
Conway, Morris S. 1985. Cambrian lagerstätten: their distribution and significance. PHIL TRANS R SOC LONDON B311, 49–65.Google Scholar
Conway, Morris S. 1986. The community structure of the middle Cambrian Phyllopod Bed (Burgess Shale). PALAEONTOLOGY 29, 423–67.Google Scholar
Conway, Morris S. & Peel, J. S. 1990. Articulated halkieriids from the Lower Cambrian of North Greenland. NATURE 345, 802–5.Google Scholar
Conway, Morris S., Peel, J. S., Higgins, A. K., Soper, N. J. & Davis, N. C. 1987. A Burgess Shale-like fauna from the Lower Cambrian of North Greenland. NATURE 326, 181–3.Google Scholar
Ford, S. W. 1873. Descriptions of new species of fossils from the Lower Potsdam Group at Troy, New York. AM J SCI 3(6), 137–40.Google Scholar
Higgins, A. K., Ineson, J. R., Peel, J. S., Surlyk, F. & Sønderholm, M. 1991. Lower Palaeozoic Franklinian Basin of North Greenland. In Peel, J. S. & Sønderholm, M. (eds) Sedimentary basins of North Greenland. BULL GRÖNL GEOL UNDERS 160, 71–139.Google Scholar
Hinz, I. 1987. The Lower Cambrian microfauna of Comley and Rushton, Shropshire, England. PALAEONTOGR A198, 41–100.Google Scholar
Hinz-Schallreuter, I. 1993. Cambrian ostracodes mainly from Baltoscandia and Morocco. ARCHIV FÜR GESCHIEBEKUNDE 1, 385–448.Google Scholar
Hinz-Schallreuter, I. & Jones, P. J. 1994. Gladioscutum lauriei n. gen. n. sp. (Archaeocopida) from the middle Cambrian of the Georgina Basin, central Australia. PALÄONTOL ZEITSCHR 68, 361–375.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hou, Xianguang 1987. Oldest Cambrian bradoriids from eastern Yunnan. In Stratigraphy and palaeontology of systematic boundaries in China: Precambrian–Cambrian Boundary (1), 537–45. Nanjing University Publishing House.Google Scholar
Hou, Xianguang & Bergström, J. 1991. The arthropods of the Lower Cambrian Chengjiang fauna, with relationships and evolutionary significance. In Simonetta, A. & Conway, Morris S. (eds) The early evolution of Metazoa and the significance of problematic taxa, 179–87. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Hou, Xianguang, Ramsköld, L. & Bergström, J. 1991. Composition and preservation of the Chengjiang fauna—a Lower Cambrian soft bodied biota. ZOOLOGICA SCRIPTA 20, 395–411.Google Scholar
Hou, Xianguang, Siveter, David. J., Williams, M., Walossek, D. & Bergström, J. (in press). An early Cambrian bradoriid arthropod with preserved appendages: its bearing on the origin of the Ostracoda. PHIL TRANS R SOC LONDON.Google Scholar
Huo, Shicheng 1956. Brief notes on Lower Cambrian Archaeostraca from Shensi and Yunnan. ACTA PALAEONTOL SIN, 4(3), 425–45.Google Scholar
Huo, Shicheng & Shu, Degan 1985. Cambrian Bradoriida of south China. Xi'an: Northwest University Publishing House.Google Scholar
Ivanova, V. A. 1964. A new bradoriid species (Ostracodoidea) from the Aldanian Stage of the Kharaulakh Mountains. PALEONT ZH 1964, 4, 111–13.Google Scholar
Jones, P. J. & McKenzie, K. G. 1980. Queensland middle Cambrian Bradoriida (Crustacea): new taxa, palaeobiogeography and biological affinities. ALCHERINGA 4, 203–25.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Laurence, R. A. & Palmer, A. R. 1963. Age of the Murray Shale and Hesse Quartzite on Chilhowee Mountain, Blount County, Tennessee. US GEOL SURV PROF PAP 475–C, 53–4.Google Scholar
Li, Yu-Wen, 1975. On the Cambrian Ostracoda with new materials from Sichuan, Yunnan, and southern Shaanxi. China. Professional Papers of Stratigraphy and Palaeontology 2, 37–72. Beijing: Geological Publishing House.Google Scholar
Lochman, C. 1956. Stratigraphy, paleontology, and paleogeography of the Elliptocephala asaphoides strata in Cambridge and Hoosick quadrangles. New York. BULL GEOL SOC AM 67, 1331–96.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Matthew, G. F. 1886. Illustrations of the fauna of the St. John Group continued. No. 3: Descriptions of new genera and species. PROC TRANS R SOC CAN, SER 1, 3 (1885), 29–84.Google Scholar
Matthew, G. F. 1902. Ostracoda of the basal Cambrian rocks in Cape Breton. CANADIAN REC SCI 8, 437–70.Google Scholar
McMenamin, M. A. S. & McMenamin, D. L. S. 1990. The emergence of animals: the Cambrian breakthrough. New York: Columbia University Press.Google Scholar
McKerrow, W. S., Scotese, C. R. & Brasier, M. D. 1992. Early Cambrian continental reconstructions. J GEOL SOC LONDON 149, 599–606.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Melnikova, L. 1983. Brachiopoda, Ostracoda (Bradoriida) and Hyolithelminta from the stratotype region of the Lower Cambrian stages. PALEONT ZH 1984, 4, 33–47.Google Scholar
Melnikova, L. M., Siveter, D. J. & Williams, M. (in press). Bradoriida and Phosphatocopida (Arthropoda) of the former Soviet Union. J MICROPALAEONTOL.Google Scholar
Mills, A. A. 1988. Silver as a removable conductive coating for scanning electron microscopy. SCANNING MICROSCOPY 2, 1265–71.Google Scholar
Müller, K. J. 1964. Ostracoda (Bradoriina) mit phosphatischen Gehäusen aus dem oberkambrium von Schweden. N JB GEOL PALÄONT ABH 121, 1–46.Google Scholar
Müller, K. J. 1979. Phosphatocopine ostracodes with preserved appendages from the Cambrian of Sweden. LETHAIA 12(1), 1–27.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Müller, K. J. 1982. Hesslandona unisulcata sp. nov. with phosphatized appendages from Upper Cambrian ‘Orsten’ of Sweden. In Bate, R. H., Robinson, E. & Sheppard, L. M. (eds) Fossil and Recent Ostracoda, 276–307. Chichester: Ellis Horwood.Google Scholar
Müller, K. J. & Walossek, D. 1991. Ein Blick durch das Orsten-Fenster in die Arthropodenwelt vor 500 Millionen Jahren. VERH DTSCH ZOOL GES 84, 281–94.Google Scholar
Neckaja, A. I. & Ivanova, V. A. 1956. First discovery of Ostracoda in the Lower Cambrian of eastern Siberia. DOKL AKAD NAUK SSSR SER GEOL 111, 5, 1095–7.Google Scholar
Palmer, A. R. 1971. The Cambrian of the Great Basin and adjacent areas, western United States. In Holland, C.H. (ed.) Lower Palaeozoic rocks of the world. 1: Cambrian of the New World, 1–78. London: Wiley-Interscience.Google Scholar
Poulsen, C. 1932. The Lower Cambrian faunas of East Greenland. MEDDR OM GRØNLAND 87, 6, 1–66.Google Scholar
Raymond, P. E. 1935. Leonchoila and other mid-Cambrian Arthropoda. BULL MUS COMP ZOOL 76, 205–30.Google Scholar
Resser, C. E. 1938. Cambrian system (restricted) of the Southern Appalachians. GEOL SOC AM SPEC PAP 15, 1–40.Google Scholar
Rushton, A. W. A. 1966. The Cambrian trilobites from the Purley Shales of Warwickshire. MONOGR PALAEONT SOC 120. 1–55, pls 1-6.Google Scholar
Rushton, A. W. A., Siveter, David J. & Williams, M. (in press). The Cambrian. In Athersuch, J., Keen, M. & Wilkinson, I. (eds) A stratigraphical index of British Ostracoda. British Micropalaeontological Society Series.Google Scholar
Siveter, David J. 1984. Ecology of Silurian ostracodes. In Bassett, M. G. & Lawson, J. D. (eds) Autecology of Silurian organisms. SPEC PAP PALAEONTOL 32, 71–85.Google Scholar
Siveter, David J. & Williams, M. 1995. An early Cambrian assignment for the Caerfai Group of South Wales. J GEOL SOC LONDON 152, 221–4.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Siveter, David J. & Williams, M. (in press). Cambrian Bradoriida and Phosphatocopida of North America. PALAEONTOLOGY.Google Scholar
Siveter, David J., Williams, M., Abushik, A. F., Berg-Madsen, V. & Melnikova, L. 1993. On Anabarochilina primordialis (Linnarsson). STEREO-ATLAS OSTRACOD SHELLS 20, 71–6.Google Scholar
Siveter, David J., Williams, M. & Melnikova, L. 1994. On Cambria melnikovae Ivanova. STEREO-ATLAS OSTRACOD SHELLS 21, 13–16.Google Scholar
Siveter, Derek J. 1990. Photography. In Briggs, D.E.G. & Crowther, P.R. (eds) Palaeobiology: A synthesis, 505–8. Oxford: Blackwell.Google Scholar
Sylvester-Bradley, P. C. 1961. Archaeocopida. In Moore, R. C. (ed.) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part Q. Arthropoda 3. Q100-105. Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press.Google Scholar
Tan, G. 1980. Crustacea. In Stratigraphy, palaeontology and sedimentary environment of Sinian in Ganlo Region, 189–90. Chengdu, China: Sichuan People's Press.Google Scholar
Tanoli, S. K. & Pickerill, R. K. 1988. Lithostratigraphy of the Cambrian—Lower Ordovician Saint John Group, southern New Brunswick. CAN J EARTH SCI 25, 669–90.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ulrich, E. O. & Bassler, R. S. 1931. Cambrian bivalved Crustacea of the Order Conchostraca. PROC US NAT MUS 78(4), 1–130.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Vannier, J. & Abe, K. (in press). Size, body plan and respiration in Ostracoda (Cambrian-Recent). PALAEONTOLOGY.Google Scholar
Vidal, G. & Peel, J. S. 1993: Acritarchs from the Lower Cambrian Buen Formation in North Greenland. BULL GRØNL GEOL UNDERS 164, 35 pp.Google Scholar
Walcott, C. D. 1890. The fauna of the Lower Cambrian or Olenellus Zone. US GEOL SURV ANN REP 10(1), 509–763.Google Scholar
Walossek, D. & Müller, K. J. 1992. The ‘Alum Shale Window’—contribution of ‘Orsten’ arthropods to the Phylogeny of Crustacea. ACTA ZOOL (STOCKHOLM) 73(5), 305–12.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Williams, M., Siveter, David J., Rushton, A. W. A. & Berg-Madsen, V. 1994a. The Upper Cambrian bradoriid ostracod Cyclotron lapworthi is a hesslandonid. TRANS R SOC EDINBURGH: EARTH SCI 85, 123–30.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Williams, M., Siveter, David J., Hinz-Schallreuter, I. & Melnikova, L. 1994b. On Cambria sibirica Neckaja & Ivanova. STEREO-ATLAS OSTRACOD SHELLS 21, 9–12.Google Scholar
Williams, M., Siveter, David J. & Peel, J. S. (in press). Isoxys (Arthropoda) from the early Cambrian Sirius Passet Lagerstätte, North Greenland. J PALEONTOL.Google Scholar
Wiman, C. 1905. Studien über das Nordbaltische Silurgebiet. I. Olenellussandstein, Obolussandstein und Ceratopygeschiefer. BULL GEOL INST UNIV UPPSALA 6, (1902–1903), 36–76.Google Scholar
Zhang, Xi-guang & Pratt, B. R. 1993. Early Cambrian ostracode larvae with a univalved carapace. SCIENCE 262, 93–4.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

Full text views

Full text views reflects PDF downloads, PDFs sent to Google Drive, Dropbox and Kindle and HTML full text views.

Total number of HTML views: 0
Total number of PDF views: 20 *
View data table for this chart

* Views captured on Cambridge Core between September 2016 - 15th January 2021. This data will be updated every 24 hours.

26 Cited by
Hostname: page-component-77fc7d77f9-mhpm4 Total loading time: 0.25 Render date: 2021-01-15T16:18:26.990Z Query parameters: { "hasAccess": "0", "openAccess": "0", "isLogged": "0", "lang": "en" } Feature Flags last update: Fri Jan 15 2021 16:00:36 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) Feature Flags: { "metrics": true, "metricsAbstractViews": false, "peerReview": true, "crossMark": true, "comments": true, "relatedCommentaries": true, "subject": true, "clr": true, "languageSwitch": true, "figures": false, "newCiteModal": false, "shouldUseShareProductTool": true, "shouldUseHypothesis": true, "isUnsiloEnabled": true }

Send article to Kindle

To send this article to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about sending to your Kindle. Find out more about sending to your Kindle.

Note you can select to send to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be sent to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Bradoriida (Arthropoda) from the early Cambrian of North Greenland
Available formats
×

Send article to Dropbox

To send this article to your Dropbox account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your <service> account. Find out more about sending content to Dropbox.

Bradoriida (Arthropoda) from the early Cambrian of North Greenland
Available formats
×

Send article to Google Drive

To send this article to your Google Drive account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your <service> account. Find out more about sending content to Google Drive.

Bradoriida (Arthropoda) from the early Cambrian of North Greenland
Available formats
×
×

Reply to: Submit a response

Your details

Conflicting interests

Do you have any conflicting interests? *