A quadrupling of Famennian pelmatozoan diversity: New late Devonian blastoids and crinoids from northwest China

Journal of Paleontology

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 922-948

  Waters, Johnny A ^a   Maples, Christopher G ^b   Lane, N Gary ^b   Marcus, Sara ^b,c   Zhou Ting, Liao ^d   Lujun, Liu ^d   Hong Fei, Hou ^e   Jin Xing, Wang ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^d NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHINODERM; EVOLUTION; FAMENNIAN; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; NEW TAXON; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TAXONOMY;

(NORTHWEST); CHINA;

ABACTINOCRINUS DEVONICUS; ACTINOCRINUS; AMADEUSICRINUS; ATHABASCOCRINUS ORIENTALE; BLASTOIDEA; BREIMERIBLASTUS GRACILIS; BREIMERIBLASTUS PYRAMIDALIS; BRIDGEROCRINUS DELICATULUS; BRIDGEROCRINUS DISCUS; BRIDGEROCRINUS MINUTUS; CLADIDA; CONOBLASTUS INVAGINATUS; CRINOIDEA; DECADOCRINUS XINJIANGENSIS; ECHINODERMATA; EMUHABLASTUS PLANUS; ENTOVALVA; EUONYCHOCRINUS WEBSTERI; GRABAUICRINUS; HERTOCRINUS; HEXACRINITES PINNULATA; HYPEROBLASTUS EMUHAENSIS; INVERTEBRATA; JULIETICRINUS ROMEO; LOGOCRINUS; PACHYLOCRINUS SUBPENTAGONALIS; PARISOCRINUS CONICUS; PARISOCRINUS NODOSUS; PELMATOZOA; SCYTALOCRINIDAE; SINOPETALOBLASTUS GRABAUI; SOSTRONOCRINUS QUADRIBRACHIATUS; TRIPOBLASTUS PLICATUS; TUNDRACRINUS; UPEROCRINUS ZHAOAE;

EID: 0141760257     PISSN: 00223360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/0022-3360(2003)077<0922:AQOFPD>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

References (81)

1. ANGELIN, N. P. 1878. Iconographia crinoideorum in stratis Sueciae Siluricis fossilium. Samson & Wallin, Holmiae, 62 p.
2. ARENDT, Y. A. 1983. A new Middle Carboniferous camerate crinoid genus from the Moscow Basin. Paleontologischeskii Zhurnal, 4:101-105.
3. AUSICH, W. I. 1998. Early phylogeny and subclass division of the Crinoidea (Phylum Echinodermata). Journal of Paleontology, 72:499-510.
4. AUSTIN, T., AND T. AUSTIN, JR. 1842. XVIII.-Proposed arrangement of the Echinodermata, particularly as regards the Crinoidea, and a subdivision of the class Adelostella (Echinidae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 1, 10:106-113.
5. AUSTIN, T., AND T. AUSTIN, JR. 1843. XXXIII.-description of several new genera find species of Crinoidea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 1, 11:195-207.
6. BATHER, F. A. 1890. British fossil crinoids, II: the classification of the Inadunata. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, ser. 6, 5:310-334.
7. BREIMER, A., AND A. J. DOP. 1975. An anatomic and taxonomic study of some Lower and Middle Devonian blastoids from Europe and North America. Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen, Proc. B. 78:39-61.
8. BREIMER, A., AND D. B. MACURDA, JR. 1972. The phylogeny of the fissiculate blastoids. Verhangelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandsche Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afdeeling Natuurkunde Eerste Reeks, Deel 26, no. 3, 390 p., 34 pls., 104 textfigs., 2 tables.
9. BRONN, H. G. 1849. Index palaeontologicus, unter Mitwirking der Herren Prof. H. R. Goppert und H. von Meyer, 1381 p.
10. BROWER, J. C. 1967. The actinocrinitid genera Abactinocrinus, Aacocrinus, and Blairocrinus. Journal of Paleontology, 41:675-705.
11. DONOVAN, S. K. 1988. The early evolution of the Crinoidea, p. 235-244. In C. R. C. Paul and A. B. Smith (eds.), Echinoderm Phylogeny and Evolutionary Biology. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 373 p.
12. ETHERIDGE, R., JR., AND P. H. CARPENTER. 1886. Catalogue of the Blastoidea in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History), with an account of the morphology and systematic position of the group, and a revision of the genera and species. British Museum Catalogue, London, xvi + 322 p., 20 pls., 8 figs.
13. FAY, R. O. 1961. Blastoid Studies. The University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions Echinodermata Article 3, 147 p., 54 pls., 221 figs. [30 October 1961]
14. FAY, R. O. 1964. An outline classification of the Blastoidea. Oklahoma Geology Notes, 24:81-90.
15. GOLDRING, W. 1923. The Devonian crinoids of the state of New York. New York State Museum Memoir 16, 670 p.
16. GOLDRING, W. 1935. Some Upper Devonian crinoids from New York. Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 24(164):337-349.
17. HALL, J. 1862. Preliminary notice of some of the species of Crinoidea, known in the Upper Helderberg and Hamilton groups of New York. New York State Cabinet of Natural History Annual Report, 15:115-153.
18. HALL, J. 1879. Notice of some remarkable crinoidal forms from the lower Helderberg group, New York State Museum of Natural History Annual Report, 28:205-210.
19. HAUDE, R., AND E. THOMAS. 1989. Ein Oberdevon-/Unterkarbon-profil im velberter sattel (Nordliches Rheinisches Schiefergebirge) mit neuen arten von (?)Sostronocrinus (Echinodermata). Bulletin de la Societe Beige de Geologie, 98:373-383.
20. HOU, H. F., N. G. LANE, J. A. WATERS, AND C. G. MAPLES. 1993 [1994]. Discovery of a new Famennian echinoderm fauna from the Hongguleleng Formation of Xinjiang, with redefinition of the formation. Stratigraphy and Paleontology of China, 2:1-18. [published in 1994]
21. JAEKEL, O. 1918. Phylogenie und System der Pelmatozoen. Palaontologische Zeitschrift, Volume 3, 128 p.
22. JELL, P. A., AND J. S. JELL. 1999. Crinoids, a Blastoid and a Cyclocystoid from the Upper Devonian Reef Complex of the Canning Basin, Western Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Musuem, 43(1):201-236.
23. JOYSEY, K. A. 1959. A study of variation and relative growth in the blastoid Orbitremites. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London, series B, no. 688, 242: 99-125, pl. 2, 9 text-figs. [1 January 1959]
24. KAMMER, T. W., AND W. I. AUSICH. 1992. Advanced cladid crinoids from the Middle Mississippian of the east-central United States: primitive-grade calyces. Journal of Paleontology, 66:461-480.
25. KAMMER, T. W., AND W. I. AUSICH. 1993. Advanced cladid crinoids from the Middle Mississippian of the east-central United States: intermediate-grade calyces. Journal of Paleontology. 67:614-639.
26. KAMMER, T. W., AND W. I. AUSICH. 1994. Advanced cladid crinoids from the Middle Mississippian of the east-central United States: advancedgrade calyces. Journal of Paleontology, 68:339-351.
27. KAMMER, T. W., AND W. I. AUSICH. 1996. Primitive cladid crinoids from Upper Osagean- Lower Meramecian (Mississippian) rocks of east-central United States. Journal of Paleontology, 70:835-866.
28. KELLY, S. M. 1986. Classification and evolution of Class Crinoidea. Abstracts of the 4th North American Paleontological Convention, p. A23.
29. KESLING, R. V. 1964. Decadocrinus hughwingi, a new Middle Devonian crinoid from the Silica Formation in northeastern Ohio. University of Michigan, Contributions of the Museum of Paleontology, 19: 135-142.
30. LANE, N. G., AND R. C. MOORE. 1978. Order Cyathocrinina, p. T578-T606. In R. C. Moore and C. Teichert (eds.), Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Pt. T, Echinodermata, 2(2). Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence.
31. LANE, N. G., J. A. WATERS, AND C. G. MAPLES. 1997. Echinoderm faunas of the Hongguleleng Formation, Late Devonian (Famennian), Xinjiang-uygur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. The Paleontological Society, Memoir 47, 43 p.
32. LANE, N. G., C. G. MAPLES, AND J. A. WATERS. 2001a. Revision of Late Devonian (Famennian) and some Early Carboniferous (Tournaisian) crinoids and blastoids from the type Devonian area of North Devon. Palaeontology, 44:1043-1080.
33. LANE, N. G., C. G. MAPLES, AND J. A. WATERS. 2001b. Revision of Strunian cinoids and bastoids from Germany. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 75:233-252.
34. LANE, N. G., J. A. WATERS, C. G. MAPLES, AND S. A. MARCUS. 1995. Paleozoic echinoderms from China. Mid-American Paleontological Society (M.A.P.S.) Digest, 18(4):84-97.
35. LAUDON, L. R. 1936. Notes on the Devonian crinoid fauna of the Cedar Valley Formation of Iowa. Journal of Paleontology, 10:60-66.
36. LAUDON, L. R., AND BEANE, B. H. 1937. The crinoid fauna of the Hampton Formation at Le Grand, Iowa. Iowa University Studies in Natural History, 17:227-272.
37. LAUDON, L. R., AND J. L. SEVERSON. 1953. New crinoid fauna, Mississippian Lodgepole Formation, Montana. Journal of Paleontology, 27:505-536.
38. LAUDON, L. R., J. M. PARKS, AND A. C. SPRENG. 1952. Mississippian crinoid fauna from the Banff Formation. Sunwapta Pass, Alberta. Journal of Paleontology, 26:544-575.
39. LI, Y., R. SHARPS, M. MCWILLIAMS, Y. LI, Q. LI, AND W. ZHANG, 1991. Late Paleozoic paleomagnetic results form the Junggar block, north-western China. Journal of Geophysical Research, 96(B10):16047-16060.
40. MCINTOSH, G. C. 1979. Abnormal specimens of the middle Devonian genus Bactrocrinites and their effect on the taxonomy of the genus. Journal of Paleontology, 53:18-28.
41. MCINTOSH, G. C. 1984. Devonian cladid inadunate crinoids: family Botryocrinidae Bather, 1899. Journal of Paleontology, 58:1260-1281.
42. MCINTOSH, G. C. 1986. Phylogeny of the dicyclic inadunate crinoid order Cladida. Fourth North American Paleontological Convention Abstracts: A31.
43. MCINTOSH, G. C. 2001. Devonian cladid crinoids: families Glossocrinidae Goldring, 1923, and Rutkowskicrinidae new family. Journal of Paleontology, 75:783-807.
44. MCKERROW, W. S., AND C. R. SCOTESE (EDS.). 1990. Palaeozoic Palaeogeography and Biogeography. The Geological Society of London Memoir 12, 435 p.
45. MACURDA, D. B., JR, 1977. Two Carboniferous blastoids from Scotland. Palaeontology, 20(1):225-236.
46. MACURDA, D. B., JR., AND A. BREIMER. 1977. Strongyloblastus, A Mississippian blastoid from western Canada. Journal of Paleontology, 51:693-700.
47. MATSUMOTO, H. 1929. Outline of a classification of Echinodermata. The Science Reports of the Tohoku Imperial University, Sendai, Japan, series 2 (Geology), 13:27-33.
48. METCALFE, I. 1996. Pre-Cretaceous evolution of SE Asian terranes, p. 97-122. In Hall and Blundell (eds.), Tectonic Evolution of Southeast Asia. Geological Society Special Publication 106.
49. MILLER, J. S. 1821. A natural history of the Crinoidea or lily-shaped animals, with observations on the genera Asteria, Euryale, Comatula, and Marsupites. Bryan & Co., Bristol, 150 p.
50. MOORE, R. C. ET AL. 1978. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Pt. T, Echinodermata 2, Crinoidea, v. 2, p. T403-T812. Geological Society of America and the University of Kansas Press, Lawrence.
51. MOORE, R. C., AND L. R. LAUDON. 1943. Evolution and classification of Paleozoic crinoids. Geological Society of America Special Paper 46, 153 p.
52. MOORE, R. C., AND F. B. PLUMMER. 1940. Crinoids from the Upper Carboniferous and Permian strata in Texas. Texas University Bulletin 3945, 468 p.
53. MORRIS, J. 1843. A catalogue of British fossils comprising all the genera and species hitherto described; with references to their geological distribution and to the localities in which they have been found. Van Voorst, London, x+ 222 p.
54. PHILLIPS, J. 1843. Genus Taxocrinus, p. 59. In J. Morris, A catalogue of British fossils, Comprising all the genera and species hitherto described; with reference to their geological distribution and to the localities in which they have been found. John Van Voorst. London, 222 p.
55. RACKI, G. 1998. Frasnian-Famennian biotic crisis: undervalued tectonic control? Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 141:177-198.
56. SAY, T. 1825. On the species of the Linnaean genus Asterias inhabiting the coasts of the United States. Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Journal, 5:141-154.
57. SCOTESE, C. R., AND W. S. MCKERROW. 1990. Revised world maps and introduction, p. 1-21. In W. S. McKerrow and C. R. Scotese (eds.), Palaeozoic Palaeogeography and Biogeography. The Geological Society, London, Memoir 12.
58. SENGÖR, A. M. C., B. A. NATAL'IN, AND V. S. BURTMAN. 1993. Evolution of the Altaid tectonic collage and Palaeozoic crustal growth in Eurasia. Nature, 364:299-307.
59. SIMMS, M. J., AND G. D. SEVASTOPULO. 1993. The origin of articulate crinoids. Palaeontology, 36:91-109.
60. SPRINGER, F. 1906. Discovery of the disc of Onychocrinus, and further remarks on the Crinoidea Flexibilia. Journal of Geology, 14:467-523.
61. SPRINGER, F. 1913. Crinoidea, p. 173-243. In K. A. Zittel (ed.), Textbook of Paleontology (Second edition). Volume 1. Macmillan & Co., Ltd., London.
62. STRIMPLE, H. L. 1940. Four new crinoid species from the Wewoka formation and two from the Ochelata group. Bulletins of American Paleontology, 25:101-108.
63. STRIMPLE, H. L., AND C. O. LEVERSON. 1973. Additional crinoid specimens from the Shellrock Formation (Upper Devonian) of Iowa. Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences, 80:182-184.
64. STRIMPLE, H. L., AND M. R. MCGINNIS. 1969. New crinoid from the Gilmore City Formation, Lower Mississippian of Iowa. University of Kansas Paleontological Contributions, Paper 42, pt. 5, p. 21-22.
65. THOMAS, A. O. 1924. Echinoderms of the Iowa Devonian. Iowa Geological Survey, 29:385-552.
66. UBAGHS, G. 1978. Subclass Camerata, p. T408-T519. In R. C. Moore and C. Teichert (eds.), Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Pt. T, Echinodermata. 2(2). Geological Society of America and University of Kansas Press, Lawrrence.
67. WACHSMUTH, C., AND F. SPRINGER. 1880. Revision of the Palaeocrinoidea. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for 1879, p. 226-378.
68. WACHSMUTH, C., AND F. SPRINGER. 1885. Revision of the Palaeocrinoidea, Pt, 3. Section 1, Discussion of the classification and relations of the brachiate crinoids, and conclusion of the generic descriptions. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for 1884, p. 225-364.
69. WACHSMUTH, C., AND F. SPRINGER. 1886. Revision of the Palaeocrinoidea, Pt. 3, Section 2, Discussion of the classification and relations of the brachiate crinoids, and conclusion of the generic descriptions. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for 1885, p. 64-226.
70. WATERS, J. A. 1990. The palaeobiogeography of the Blastoidea (Echinodermata), p. 339-352. W. S. McKerrow and C. R. Scotese (eds.), Palaeozoic Palaeogeography and Biogeography. Geological Society [London] Memoir 12.
71. WATERS, J. A., AND A. S. HOROWITZ. 1993. Ordinal-level evolution in the Blastoidea. Lethaia, 26:207-213.
72. WEBBY, B. D. 1965. Quantoxocrinus, a new Devonian inadunate crinoid from West Somerset, England. Palaeontology, 11:513-525.
73. WEBSTER, G. D., D. J. HAFLEY, D. B. BLAKE, AND A. GLASS. 1999. Crinoids and stelleroids (Echinodermata) from the Broken Rib Member. Dyer Formation (Late Devonian, Famennian) of the White River Plateau, Colorado. Journal of Paleontology, 73(3):461-486.
74. WEBSTER, G. D., N. G. LANE, C. G. MAPLES, J. A. WATERS, AND A. S. HOROWITZ. 1998. Frasnian-Famennian extinction was a non-event for crinoids, blastoids, and Bryozoans. Geological Society of America Annual Meeting, Program with Abstracts: 30(7):30-31.
75. WHIDBORNE, G. F. 1898. A monograph of the Devonian fauna of the South of England. Volume III, Pt. III. The fauna of the Marwood and Pelton of North Devon and Somerset (continued). Palaeontographical Society, v. 52, p. 179-236, pls. 22-38.
76. XIA, F. 1996. New knowledge on the age of Hongguleleng Formation in the northwestern margin of Junggar Basin, northern Xinjiang. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica. 13(3):277-285.
77. XU, I. W. 1963. Some "hexagonal lilies" (Hexacrinites) from the Middle Devonian section in the Syansyan district of Kwangsi Province. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica, 11:108-118.
78. YAKOVLEV, N. N. 1928. Two new crinoid genera (Poteriocrinidae) from the upper Paleozoic of the Pechora region. Akademie Nauk SSSR, Geologie Muzeya, Trudy, 3:1-8.
79. ZHAO, X. 1994. Devonian, p. 111-130. In Yin Hongfu (ed.), The Palaeobiogeography of China. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
80. ZHAO, Z. X. 1986. The conodonts from Hobokasar Formation of Aljiati hill, northern Xinjiang, Xinjiang Shiyou Dizhi, 7(3):89-107.
81. ZHAO, Z. X., AND C. Y. WANG. 1990. Age of the Honggulelong Formation in the Junggar Basin of Xinjiang. Journal of Stratigraphy, 14:145-147.