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The oldest known Eospirifer (Brachiopoda) in the Changwu Formation (Late Ordovician) of western Zhejiang, East China, with a review of the earliest spiriferoids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Rong Jia-Yu ,
Zhan Ren-Bin  and
Han Nai-Ren
Rong Jia-Yu
Affiliation:
Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica, Nanjing 210008, Jiangsu, China
Zhan Ren-Bin
Affiliation:
Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Academia Sinica, Nanjing 210008, Jiangsu, China
Han Nai-Ren
Affiliation:
Guilin College of Geology, Guilin 541004, Guangxi, China
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Abstract

Eospirifer praecursor n. sp. is the oldest known eospiriferine, probably ancestral to the entire Spirifer group. It is described here based on external and internal mold material from the uppermost part of the Changwu Formation (mid-Ashgill, Late Ordovician), Hejiashan, Jiangshan, western Zhejiang, East China. A study of the ontogeny of E. praecursor n. sp. suggests that the cardinalia of early growth stages are more similar to those of early atrypoids rather than to those of the orthoids but the brachidia in these earliest Eospirifer are still unknown. The possibility that eospiriferines were derived from an atrypoid stock cannot be excluded. All early eospiriferine species recorded from the Ashgill, Rhuddanian, and early Aeronian are reviewed for comparison. Their morphological diversification reveals early evolutionary experimentation. Based on the Ashgill occurrence of Eospirifer, it is likely that East Asia may be considered as one of the eospiriferine source areas.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 68 , Issue 4 , July 1994 , pp. 763 - 776
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