Terrestrialization in the Late Devonian: A palaeoecological overview of the Red Hill site, Pennsylvania, USA

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 339, Issue , 2010, Pages 111-128

  Cressler, Walter L ^a   Daeschler, Edward B ^b   Slingerland, Rudy ^c   Peterson, Daniel A ^c  

^a WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL PLAIN; AVULSION; BIOTIC FACTOR; DEVONIAN; FAUNA; FLOODPLAIN; FLORA; INVERTEBRATE; PALEOECOLOGY; SEDIMENTATION; TAXONOMY; VERTEBRATE;

PENNSYLVANIA; RED HILL; UNITED STATES;

FILICOPHYTA; INVERTEBRATA; LYCOPODIOPSIDA; SPERMATOPHYTA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 80053342307     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP339.10     Document Type: Article

References (95)

1. Ahlberg P E, Luksevics E, Lebedev O. The first tetrapod finds from the Devonian (Upper Famennian) of Latvia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 1994, 343:303-328.
2. Ahlberg P E, Clack J A, Luksevics E, Blom H, Zupins I. Ventastega curonica and the origin of tetrapod morphology. Nature 2008, 453:1199-1204.
3. Algeo T J, Scheckler S E. Terrestrial-marine teleconnections in the Devonian: links between the evolution of land plants, weathering processes, and marine anoxic events. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B 1998, 353:113-130.
4. Algeo T J, Scheckler S E, Maynard J B, Gensel P G, Edwards D. Effects of Middle to Late Devonian spread of vascular land plants on weathering regimes, marine biotas, and global climate. Plants Invade the Land: Evolutionary and Environmental Perspectives 2001, 213-236. New York, Columbia University Press.
5. Anderson H M, Hiller N, Gess R W. Archaeopteris (Progymnospermopsida) from the Devonian of southern Africa. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 1995, 117:305-320.
6. Andrews H N, Phillips T L, Radforth N W. Paleobotanical studies in Arctic Canada. I. Archaeopteris from Ellesmere Island. Canadian Journal of Botany 1965, 43:545-556.
7. Astin T R, Marshall J E A, Blom H, Berry C R, Vecoli M, Clément G, Meyer-Berthaud B. The sedimentary environment of the Late Devonian East Greenland tetrapods. The Terrestrialization Process: Modelling Complex Interactions at the Biosphere-Geosphere Interface 2010, 339:93-109. Geological Society, London, Special Publications.
8. Banks H P, Dilcher D L, Taylor T N. Floral assemblages in the Siluro-Devonian. Biostratigraphy of Fossil Plants 1980, Pennsylvania, Dowden, Hutchinson, & Ross.
9. Bateman R M, DiMichele W A. Heterospory: the most iterative key innovation in the evolutionary history of the plant kingdom. Biological Reviews 1994, 69:345-417.
10. Beck C B. Predominance of Archaeopteris in Upper Devonian flora of western Catskills and adjacent Pennsylvania. Botanical Gazette 1964, 125:126-128.
11. Berry C M, Edwards D. The herbaceous lycophyte Haskinsia Grierson and Banks from the Devonian of western Venezuela, with observations on leaf morphology and fertile specimens. Botanical Society of the Linnean Society 1996, 122:103-122.
12. Berry C M, Fairon-Demaret M, Gensel P G, Edwards D. The Middle Devonian flora revisited. Plants Invade the Land: Evolutionary and Environmental Perspectives 2001, 120-139. New York, Columbia University Press.
13. Blieck A, Clement G, Becker R T, Kirchgasser W T, et al. The biostratigraphical and palaeogeographical framework of the earliest diversification of tetrapods (Late Devonian). Devonian Events and Correlations 2007, 278:219-235. Geological Society, London, Special Publications.
14. Bridge J S, Gordon E A, Woodrow D L, Sevon W D. Quantitative interpretation of ancient river systems in the Oneonta Formation, Catskill Magnafacies. The Catskill Delta 1985, 201:163-181. Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, Special Papers.
15. Bridge J S, Nickelsen B H. Reanalysis of the Twilight Park Conglomerate, Upper Devonian Catskill Magnafacies, New York State. Northeastern Geology 1986, 7:181-191.
16. Bristow C S. Crevasse splays from the rapidly aggrading sand-bed braided Niobrara River, Nebraska: effect of base-level rise. Sedimentology 1999, 46:1029-1047.
17. Cai C. On the occurrence of Archaeopteris in China. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 1981, 20:75-80.
18. Cai C. Two Callixylon species from the Upper Devonian of Junggar Basin, Xinjiang. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 1989, 28:571-578.
19. Cai C, Wen Y, Chen P. Archaeopteris florula from Upper Devonian of Xinhui County, central Guangdong and its stratigraphical significance (in Chinese with English summary. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 1987, 26:55-64.
20. Caputo M V. Late Devonian glaciation in South America. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 1985, 51:291-317.
21. Chaloner W, Sheerin A, House M R, Scrutton C T, Bassett M G. Devonian macrofloras. The Devonian System: A Palaeontological Association International Symposium 1979, 145-161. The Palaeontological Association, London, UK, Special Papers in Palaeontology.
22. Chaloner W, Hill A J, Lacey W S. First Devonian platyspermic seed and its implications for gymnosperm evolution. Nature 1977, 265:233-235.
23. Clack J A. Gaining ground: the origin and evolution of tetrapods 2002, Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Press.
24. Clack J A. Devonian climate change, breathing, and the origin of the tetrapod stem group. Integrative and Comparative Biology 2007, 47:510-523.
25. Clack J A, Finney S M. Pederpes finneyae, an articulated tetrapod from the Tournasian of Western Scotland. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 2005, 2:311-346.
26. Clack J A, Coates M I. Acanthostega gunnari, a primitive, aquatic tetrapod?. Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle 1995, 4:359-372.
27. Cressler III W L. Evidence of the earliest known wildfires. Palaios 2001, 16:171-174.
28. Cressler III W L, Greb S F, DiMichele W A. Plant palaeoecology of the Late Devonian Red Hill locality, north-central Pennsylvania, an Archaeopteris-dominated wetand plant community and early tetrapod site. Wetlands Through Time 2006, 399:79-102. Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, Special Papers.
29. Cressler W L, Pfefferkorn H W. A Late Devonian isoetalean lycopsid, Otzinachsonia beerboweri, gen. et sp. nov, from north-central Pennsylvania, U.S.A. American Journal of Botany 2005, 92:1131-1140.
30. Daeschler E B. Early tetrapod jaws from the Late Devonian of Pennsylvania, USA. Journal of Palaeontology 2000, 74:301-308.
31. Daeschler E B, Shubin N H, Thomson K S, Amaral W W. A Devonian tetrapod from North America. Science 1994, 265:639-642.
32. Daeschler E B, Frumes A C, Mullison C F. Groenlandaspidid placoderm fishes from the Late Devonian of North America. Records of the Australian Museum 2003, 55:45-60.
33. Daeschler E B, Shubin N H, Jenkins Jr F A. A Devonian tetrapod-like fish and the evolution of the tetrapod body plan. Nature 2006, 440:757-763.
34. Daeschler E B, Clack J A, Shubin N H. Late Devonian tetrapod remains from Red Hill, Pennsylvania, USA: How much diversity?. Acta Zoologica 2009, 90(Suppl. 1):306-317.
35. Davis M C, Shubin N H, Daeschler E B. A new specimen of Sauripterus taylori (Sarcopterygii, Osteichthyes) from the Famennian Catskill Formation of North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 2004, 24:26-40.
36. Dennison J M, DeWitt Jr W, Dennison J M, Dewitt W, Hasson K O, Hoskins D M, Head J W. Redbed zone produced by sea level drop at beginning of Devonian Cohocton Age delimits Fulton and Augusta Lobes of Catskill delta complex. Stratigraphy, Sedimentology, and Structure of Silurian and Devonian Rocks Along the Allegheny Front in Bedford County, PA, Allegheny County, MD, and Grant County, WV 1972, Guidebook for the 37th Annual Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists, Harrisburg, PA, Pennsylvania Topographic and Geologic Survey.
37. DiMichele W A, Bateman R M. Plant paleoecology and evolutionary inference: two examples from the Paleozoic. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 1996, 90:223-247.
38. DiMichele W A, Hook R W, Behrensmeyer A K, Damuth J D, DiMichele W A, Potts R, Sues H-D, Wing S L, et al. Paleozoic terrestrial ecosystems. Terrestrial Ecosystems Through Time 1992, 205-325. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press.
39. DiMichele W A, Phillips T L, Pfefferkorn H W. Paleoecology of Late Paleozoic pteridosperms from tropical Euramerica. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 2006, 133:83-118.
40. Downs J P, Daeschler E B. Variation within a large sample of Ageleodus pectinatus teeth (Chondrichthyes) from the Late Devonian of Pennsylvania, USA. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 2001, 21:811-814.
41. Edwards D, Wellman C, Gensel P G, Edwards D. Embryophytes on land: the Ordovician to Lochkovian (Lower Devonian) record. Plants Invade the Land: Evolutionary and Environmental Perspectives 2001, 3-28. New York, Columbia University Press.
42. Fairon-Demaret M, Scheckler S E. Typification and redescription of Moresnetia zalesskyi Stockmans, 1948, an early seed plant from the Upper Famennian of Belgium. Bulletin de L'Institut Royal les Sciences Naturalles de Belgique, Sciences del la Terre 1987, 57:183-199.
43. Friend P F, Williams B P J, Ford M, Williams E A, Friend P F, Williams B P J. Kinematics and dynamics of Old Red Sandstone basins. New Perspectives on the Old Red Sandstone 2000, 180:29-60. Geological Society, London, Special Publications.
44. Galtier J, Paris F, Aouad-Debbaj Z E. La présence de Callixylon dans le Dévonien supérieur du Maroc et sa signification paléogéographique. Compte Rendu de l'Académies des Sciences Paris (Série IIa) 1996, 322:893-900.
45. Greb S F, Dimichele M A. Wetlands Through Time. 2006, 399. Boulder, CO, Geological Society of America, Special Papers.
46. Griffing D H, Bridge J S, Hotton C L, Friend P F, Williams B P J. Coastal-fluvial palaeoenvironments and plant palaeoecology of the Lower Devonian (Emsian), Gaspé Bay, Québec, Canada. New Perspectives on the Old Red Sandstone 2000, 180:61-84. Geological Society, London, Special Publications.
47. Hawkins S J. Fossil charcoal in Devonian-Mississippian shales: Implications for the expansion of land plants, paleo-atmospheric oxygen levels and organic-rich black shale accumulation 2006, Lexington, KY, University of Kentucky, Unpublished MSc Thesis.
48. Hotton C L, Hueber F M, Griffing D H, Bridge J S, Gensel P G, Edwards D. Early terrestrial plant environments: an example from the Emsian of Gaspé, Canada. Plants Invade the Land: Evolutionary and Environmental Perspectives 2001, 179-212. New York, Columbia University Press.
49. Janvier P. Early Vertebrates 1996, 33. Oxford, Oxford Science Publications, Clarendon Press, Oxford Monographs on Geology and Geophysics.
50. Kenrick P, Fairon-Demaret M. Archaeopteris roemeriana (Göppert) sensu Stockmans, 1948 from the Upper Famennian of Belgium: anatomy and leaf polymorphism. Bulletin de l'Institute Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, Sciences de la Terre 1991, 61:179-195.
51. Labandeira C. The origin of herbivory on land: initial patterns of plant tissue consumption by arthropods. Insect Science 2007, 14:259-275.
52. Maziane N, Higgs K T, Streel M. Revision of the Late Famennian zonation scheme in eastern Belgium. Journal of Micropalaeontology 1999, 18:117-125.
53. McGhee G R. The Late Devonian mass extinction: the Frasnian/Famennian crisis. 1996, New York, Columbia University Press, Critical Moments in Paleobiology and Earth History Series.
54. McMillan N M J, Embry A F, Glass D J. Devonian of the World, Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on the Devonian System 1988, 14. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Memoirs.
55. Meyer-Berthaud B, Wendt J, Galtier J. First record of a large Callixylon trunk from the Late Devonian of Gondwana. Geology Magazine 1997, 134:847-853.
56. Nathorst A G. Die oberdevonische Flora (die "Ursaflora) der Bären Insel. Bulletin of the Geological Institute of Uppsala 1900, Vol. IV:1-5. No. 8, Part 2.
57. Nathorst A G. Zur oberdevonische Flora der Bären-Insel. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 1902, 36:1-60.
58. O'Brien P E, Wells A T. A small alluvial crevasse splay. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 1986, 56:876-79.
59. Peppers R A, Pfefferkorn H W, Smith W H, Nance R B, Hopkins M E, Johnson R G, Shabica C W. A comparison of the floras of the Colchester (No. 2) Coal and the Francis Creek Shale. Depositional Environments in parts of the Carbondale Formation - Western and Northern Illinois 1970, 61-74. Springfield, IL, Illinois State Geological Survey, Illinois State Geological Survey Field Guidebook Series.
60. Petrosyan N M, Oswald D H. Stratigraphic importance of the Devonian flora of the USSR. International Symposium on the Devonian System, 1 1968, 579-586. Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Alberta Society of Petroleum Geology.
61. Rahmanian V D. Stratigraphy and sedimentology of the Upper Devonian Catskill and uppermost Trimmers Rock Formations in central Pennsylvania 1979, The Pennsylvania State University, PhD thesis.
62. Remington K, Daeschler E B, Rygel M C. Sedimentology of an Archanodon-bearing channel body in the Catskill Formation (Upper Devonian) near Steam Valley, PA. Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs 2008, 40:82.
63. Retallack G J. Early forest soils and their role in Devonian global change. Science 1997, 276:583-585.
64. Richardson J B, McGregor D C. Silurian and Devonian spore zones of the Old Red Sandstone continent and adjacent regions. Geological Survey of Canada, Bulletin 1986, 364:1-79.
65. Rothwell G W, Scheckler S E, Beck C B. Biology of ancestral gymnosperms. Origins and Evolution of Gymnosperms 1988, 85-134. New York, Columbia University Press.
66. Rothwell G W, Scheckler S E, Gillespie W H. Elkinsia gen nov, a Late Devonian gymnosperm with cupulate ovules. Botanical Gazette 1989, 150:170-189.
67. Scheckler S E. Ontogeny of progymnosperms. II. Shoots of Upper Devonian Archaeopteridales. Canadian Journal of Botany 1978, 56:3136-3170.
68. Scheckler S E, Gastaldo R A, Broadhead T W. Floras of the Devonian-Mississippian transition. Land Plants: Notes for a Short Course 1986a, 15:81-96. Knoxville, TN, University of Tennessee, Studies in Geology.
69. Scheckler S E. Geology, floristics and paleoecology of Late Devonian coal swamps from Appalachian Laurentia (U.S.A.). Annales de la Société Géologique de Belgique 1986b, 109:209-222.
70. Scheckler S E. Old Red Continent facies in the Late Devonian and Early Carboniferous of Appalachian North America. Annales de la Société Géologique de Belgique 1986c, 109:223-236.
71. Scheckler S E, Briggs D E G, Crowther P. Afforestation - the first forests. Palaeobiology II 2001, 67-71. Oxford, Blackwell Science.
72. Scheckler S E, Cressler W L, Connery T, Klavins S, Postnikoff D. Devonian shrub and tree dominated landscapes. XVI International Botanical Congress, Abstracts 1999, 16:13.
73. Scotese C R, McKerrow W S, McKerrow W S, Scotese C R. Revised world maps and introduction. Palaeozoic Palaeogeography and Biogeography 1990, 1-21. The Geological Society, London, Memoirs.
74. Sevon W D, Woodrow D L, Sevon W D. Nonmarine facies of the Middle and Late Devonian Catskill coastal alluvial plain. The Catskill Delta 1985, 201:79-90. Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, Special Papers.
75. Shear W A, Selden P A, Gensel P G, Edwards D. Rustling in the undergrowth: animals in early terrestrial ecosystems. Plants Invade the Land: Evolutionary and Environmental Perspectives 2001, 29-51. New York, Columbia University Press.
76. Slingerland R, Smith N D. River avulsions and their deposits. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 2004, 32:257-285.
77. Smith D G. Anastomosing river deposits, sedimentation rates and basin subsidence, Magdalena River, northwestern Colombia, South America. Sedimentary Geology 1986, 46:177-196.
78. Smith A T, Rose A W, Woodrow D L, Sevon W D. Relation of red-bed copper- uranium occurrences to the regional sedimentology of the Catskill Formation in Pennsylvania. The Catskill Delta 1985, 201:183-197. Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, Special Papers.
79. Smith N D, Cross T A, Dufficy J P, Clough S R. Anatomy of an avulsion. Sedimentology 1989, 36:1-23.
80. Snigirevskaya N S. The Late Devonian-The time of the appearance of forests as a natural phenomenon. Contributed Papers: The Formation and Evolution of the Continental Biotas, L. 1988, 115-124. 31st Session of the All-Union Palaeontological Society, (in Russian).
81. Snigirevskaya N S. Archaeopterids and their role in the land plant cover evolution. Botanicheskii Zhournal 1995, 80:70-75. (in Russian with English summary).
82. Soong T W M, Zhao Y. The flood and sediment characteristics of the Lower Yellow River in China. Water International 1994, 19:129-137.
83. Stein W E, Mannolini F, Hernick L V, Landing E, Berry C M. Giant cladoxylopsid trees resolve the enigma of the Earth's earliest forest stumps at Gilboa. Nature 2007, 446:904-907.
84. Stewart W N, Rothwell G W. Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants 1993, Cambridge, UK, Cambridge University Press.
85. Streel M, Scheckler S E. Miospore lateral distribution in upper Famennian alluvial lagoonal to tidal facies from eastern United States and Belgium. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 1990, 64:315-324.
86. Streel M, Loboziak S, Jansonius J, McGregor D C. 18B: Middle and Upper Devonian miospores. Palynology: Principles and Applications 1996, Vol. 2:579-587. College Station, Texas, American Association Stratigraphic Palynologists Foundation, Applications. Ch. 18: Paleozoic spores and pollen.
87. Streel M, Higgs K, Loboziak S, Riegel W, Steemans P. Spore stratigraphy and correlation with faunas and floras in the type marine Devonian of the Ardenne-Rhenish regions. Journal of Palaeobotany and Palynology 1987, 50:211-229.
88. Traverse A. Dating the earliest tetrapods: a Catskill palynological problem in Pennsylvania. Courier Forschungs - Institut Senckenberg 2003, 241:19-29.
89. Ward P, Labandeira C, Laurin M, Berner R A. Confirmation of Romer's Gap as a low oxygen interval constraining the timing of initial arthropod and vertebrate terrestrialization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2006, 103:16 818-16 822.
90. White M E. The Greening of Gondwana, Frenchs Forest, New South Wales 1986, Reed Books Pty. Ltd.
91. Williams E G. Catskill sedimentation in central Pennsylvania. Central Pennsylvania Geology Revisted 1985, 20-32. Guidebook for the 50th Annual Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists, University Park, PA, The Pennsylvania State University.
92. Williams E G, Slingerland R, Sevon W D. Catskill sedimentation in central Pennsylvania. Selected Geology of Bedford and Huntingdon Counties 1986, 73-79. Guidebook for the 51st Annual Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists, Harrisburg, PA, Pennsylvania Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey.
93. Wilson H M, Daeschler E B, Desbiens S. New flat-backed archiplypodan millipedes from the Upper Devonian of North America. Journal of Paleontology 2005, 79:738-744.
94. Woodrow D L, Sevon W D. The Catskill Delta 1985, 201. Geological Society of America, Boulder, CO, Special Papers.
95. Woodrow D E, Robinson R A J, Prave A R, Traverse A, Daeschler E B, Rowe N D, Delaney N A, Way J. Stratigraphic, sedimentological and temporal framework of Red Hill (Upper Devonian Catskill Formation) near Hyner, Clinton County, Pennsylvania: site of the oldest amphibian known from North America. Field Trip Guide, 60th Annual Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists. 1995, Lock Haven, PA, Lock Haven University.