Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-xtgtn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-19T11:35:48.347Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Redescription and neotype designation of the Middle Devonian microconchid (Tentaculita) species ‘Spirorbis’ Angulatus Hall, 1861

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Michał Zatoń ,
Mark A. Wilson  and
Olev Vinn
Michał Zatoń
Affiliation:
University of Silesia, Faculty of Earth Sciences, Będzińska Street 60, PL-41-200 Sosnowiec, Poland,
Mark A. Wilson
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, The College of Wooster, Wooster, OH 44691, USA,
Olev Vinn
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Tartu, Ravila 14A, 50411 Tartu, Estonia,
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The Middle Devonian (Givetian) microconchid tubeworm species known as Spirorbis angulatus Hall, 1861 is redescribed here on the basis of a new collection from the Traverse Group of Michigan and Hamilton Group of Ohio and New York, U.S.A. Its general characteristics and ornamentation indicate it belongs to the genus Palaeoconchus Vinn, 2006. Because the original specimens on which the species was erected are lost, a neotype is here designated for a specimen from the same area (Erie County, New York) and stratigraphic interval (Hamilton Group, Givetian) as the original specimens described by Hall (1861). The new specimens of Palaeoconchus angulatus (Hall) show that the species is characterized by a spectrum of morphological variability, possibly ranging from a nearly smooth tube, though weakly ornamented, to one distinctly tuberculated on which thicker nodes and thin spines may occur together. Assemblages of microconchids from particular stratigraphic divisions are characterized by a dominance of small (up to 1.5 mm in diameter, probably juvenile) individuals, while larger individuals (>2 mm) are rare. This suggests that the populations may have experienced occasional mass mortalities. Although substrate (in this case brachiopod shells and rugosan coral thecae) overturning and an increase in sedimentation rate are possible factors, an episodic anoxia/dysoxia of the bottom waters seems likely as it is known that the host dark shales record such occasional oxygen deficiency.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Paleontology , Volume 86 , Issue 3 , May 2012 , pp. 417 - 424
Copyright
Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Alvarez, F. and Brunton, C. H. C. 2001. Fundamental differences in external spine growth in brachiopods, pp.108–118. InBrunton, H., Cocks, L. R. M. and Long, S. L.(eds.), Brachiopods: Past and Present. Systematics Association Special Volume.Google Scholar
Alvarez, F. and Taylor, P. D. 1987. Epizoan ecology and interactions in the Devonian of Spain. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 61:17–31.Google Scholar
Baird, G. C. and Brett, C. E. 1983. Regional variation and paleontology of two coral beds in the Middle Devonian Hamilton Group of western New York. Journal of Paleontology, 57:417–446.Google Scholar
Bandel, K. 2007. Description and classification of Late Triassic Neritimorpha (Gastropoda, Mollusca) from St Cassian Formation, Italian Alps. Bulletin of Geosciences, 82:215–274.Google Scholar
Bartholomew, A. J. and Brett, C. E. 2007. Correlation of Middle Devonian Hamilton Group-equivalent strata in east-central North America: implications for eustasy, tectonics and faunal provinciality. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 278:105–131.Google Scholar
Bartholomew, A. J., Brett, C. E., Desantis, M., Baird, G. C., and Tsujita, C. 2006. Sequence stratigraphy of the Middle Devonian at the border of the Michigan Basin: Implications for sea-level change and paleogeography. Northeastern Geology, 28:2–33.Google Scholar
Becker, R. T. 2005. Ammonoids and substage subdivisions in the Givetian open shelf facies. Contributions to the Devonian Terrestrial and Marine Environments: From Continent to Shelf, IGCP 499/Subcommission on Devonian Stratigraphy joint field meeting, Novosibirsk, Russia, p. 29–31.Google Scholar
Bordeaux, Y. L. and Brett, C. E. 1990. Substrate specific associations of epibionts on Middle Devonian brachiopods: Implications for paleoecology. Historical Biology, 4:203–220.Google Scholar
Bouček, B. 1964. The Tentaculites of Bohemia. Publication of Czechoslovakian Academy of Sciences, Prague, 125 p.Google Scholar
Brett, C. E., editor. 1986. Dynamic stratigraphy and depositional environments of the Hamilton Group (Middle Devonian) in New York State, Part I. New York State Museum Bulletin, 457:1–156.Google Scholar
Brett, C. E. and Baird, G. C. 1996. Middle Devonian sedimentary cycles and sequences in the northern Appalachian Basin, pp.213–241. InWitzke, B. J. and Day, J.(eds.), Paleozoic Sequence Stratigraphy: View from the North American Craton. Geological Society of America Special Paper, 306.Google Scholar
Clarke, J. M. 1908. The beginnings of dependent life. New York State Museum Bulletin, 121:46–196.Google Scholar
Ettensohn, F. R. 1985. The Catskill Delta Complex and the Acadian Orogeny: a model, pp.39–50. InWoodrow, D. L. and Sevon, W. D.(eds.), The Catskill Delta. Geological Society of America Special Paper, 201.Google Scholar
Grabau, A. W. 1899. The geology and palaeontology of Eighteen Mile Creek and the lake shore sections of Erie County, New York. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, 6:1–403.Google Scholar
Hall, J. 1861. Contributions to Palaeontology. Continuation of Appendix C. Descriptions of new species of fossils from the upper Helderberg, Hamilton and Chemung Groups, continued from page 109 of the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Regents of the University upon the State Cabinet. Charles Van Benthuysen, Printer, Albany, New York, p. 1–109.Google Scholar
Hall, J. 1862. Contributions to Paleontology; comprising descriptions of new species of fossils, from the Upper Helderberg, Hamilton, and Chemung groups. Annual Report of the Regents of the University of the State of New York on the Condition of the State Cabinet of Natural History, 15, p. 29–193.Google Scholar
Hove, H. A ten. and Kupriyanova, E. K. 2009. Taxonomy of Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta): The state of affairs. Zootaxa, 2036:1–126.Google Scholar
Hurst, J. M. 1974. Selective epizoan encrustation of some Silurian brachiopods from Gotland. Palaeontology, 17:423–429.Google Scholar
Jäger, M. 2004. Serpulidae und Spirorbidae (Polychaeta sedentaria) aus Campan und Maastricht von Norddeutschland, den Niederlanden, Belgien und angrenzenden Gebieten. Geologisches Jahrbuch, A, 157:121–249.Google Scholar
Kesling, R. V., Hoare, R. D., and Sparks, D. K. 1980. Epizoans of the Middle Devonian brachiopod Paraspirifer bownockeri: Their relationships to one another and to their host. Journal of Paleontology, 54:1141–1154.Google Scholar
Klapper, G. 1981. Review of New York Devonian conodont biostratigraphy, pp.57–68. InOliver, W. A. Jr and Klapper, G.(eds.), Devonian biostratigraphy of New York, Part I. IUGS SDS.Google Scholar
Knight-Jones, E. W. 1951. Gregariousness and some other aspects of the setting behaviour of Spirorbis. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 30:201–222.Google Scholar
Jiménez, A. P., Aguirre, J., and Rivas, P. 2009. Taxonomic study of scallops (Pectinidae: Mollusca: Bivalvia) from Pliocene deposits (Almería, SE Spain). Revista Española de Paleontología, 24:1–30.Google Scholar
Landing, E. and Brett, C. E.(eds.). 1991. Dynamic stratigraphy and depositional environments of the Hamilton Group (Middle Devonian) in New York State, Part II. New York State Museum Bulletin, 469:1–177.Google Scholar
Miller, K. B. 1991. High-resolution correlation within a storm-dominated muddy epeiric sea; taphofacies of the Middle Devonian Wanakah Member, western New York, pp.129–153. InLanding, E. and Brett, C. E.(eds.), Dynamic stratigraphy and depositional environments of the Hamilton Group (Middle Devonian) in New York State, Part II: New York State Museum and Science Service Bulletin, 469.Google Scholar
Nicholson, H. A. 1874. Descriptions of new fossils from the Devonian formation of Canada. Geological Magazine, 1:197–201.Google Scholar
Orr, R. W. 1971. Conodonts from Middle Devonian Strata of the Michigan Basin. Indiana Geological Survey Bulletin, 45:1–110.Google Scholar
Pojeta, J. Jr, Eernisse, D. J., Hoare, R. D., and Henderson, M. D. 2003. Echinochiton dufoei: A new spiny Ordovician chiton. Journal of Paleontology, 77:646–654.Google Scholar
Scotese, C. R. 1990. Atlas of Phanerozoic Plate Tectonic Reconstruction. International Lithophase Program (IUU- IUGS). Paleomap Project Technical Report 10-90-1.Google Scholar
Taylor, P. D. and Vinn, O. 2006. Convergent morphology in small spiral worm tubes (‘Spirorbis’) and its palaeoenvironmental implications. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 163:225–228.Google Scholar
Taylor, P. D., Vinn, O., and Wilson, M. A. 2010. Evolution of biomineralisation in ‘lophophorates’. Special Papers in Palaeontology, 84:317–333.Google Scholar
Vinn, O. 2006. Two new microconchid (Tentaculita Bouček, 1964) genera from the early Palaeozoic of Baltoscandia and England. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Monatshefte, 2006(2):89–100.Google Scholar
Vinn, O. 2010. Adaptive strategies in the evolution of encrusting tentaculitoid tubeworms. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 292:211–221.Google Scholar
Vinn, O. and Mutvei, H. 2005. Observations on the morphology and affinities of cornulitids from the Ordovician of Anticosti Island and the Silurian of Gotland. Journal of Paleontology, 79:726–737.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Vinn, O. and Mutvei, H. 2009. Calcareous tubeworms of the Phanerozoic. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences, 58:286–296.Google Scholar
Vinn, O. and Taylor, P. D. 2007. Microconchid tubeworms from the Jurassic of England and France. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 52:391–399.Google Scholar
Weedon, M. J. 1991. Microstructure and affinity of the enigmatic Devonian tubular fossils Trypanopora. Lethaia, 24:223–227.Google Scholar
Weedon, M. J. 1994. Tube microstructure of Recent and Jurassic serpulid polychaetes and the question of the Palaeozoic “spirorbids.”. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 39:1–15.Google Scholar
Wilson, M. A., Vinn, O., and Yancey, T. E. 2011. A new microconchid tubeworm from the lower Permian (Artinskian) of central Texas, U.S.A. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 56:785–791.Google Scholar
Zatoń, M. and Krawczyński, W. 2011a. New Devonian microconchids (Tentaculita) from the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland. Journal of Paleontology, 85:757–769.Google Scholar
Zatoń, M. and Krawczyński, W. 2011b. Microconchid tubeworms across the upper Frasnian–lower Famennian interval in the Central Devonian Field, Russia. Palaeontology, 54:1455–1473.Google Scholar
Zatoń, M. and Taylor, P. D. 2009. Microconchids (Tentaculita) from the Middle Jurassic of Poland. Bulletin of Geosciences, 84:653–660.Google Scholar
Zatoń, M. and Vinn, O. 2011. Microconchids and the rise of modern encrusting communities. Lethaia, 44:5–7.Google Scholar