Tube growth patterns and microbial mat-related lifestyles in the Ediacaran fossil Cloudina, Gaojiashan Lagerstätte, South China

Gondwana Research

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1008-1018

  Cai, Yaoping ^a,b   Hua, Hong ^a   Schiffbauer, James D ^c   Sun, Bo ^d   Yuan, Xunlai ^b  

^a NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^d Bur Coalfield Geol Explor Shaanxi   (China)

Author keywords

Carbonate MISS; Cloudina; Ediacaran; Growth pattern; Mat related lifestyle

Indexed keywords

EDIACARAN; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; FOSSIL RECORD; LIFESTYLE; MICROBIAL MAT; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; TAPHONOMY;

CHINA; GAOJIASHAN; SHAANXI;

EID: 84893727354     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gr.2012.12.027     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Bengtson S., Yue Z. Predatorial borings in late Precambrian mineralized exoskeletons. Science 1992, 257:367-369.
2. Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources of Shaanxi Province Regional Geology of Shaanxi Province. Chinese Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources, Geological Memoirs 1989, series 1, number 13. Geological Publishing House, Beijing.
3. Cai Y., Hua H., Xiao S., Schiffbauer J.D., Li P. Biostratinomy of the late Ediacaran pyritized Gaojiashan Lagerstätte from southern Shaanxi, South China: importance of event deposits. Palaios 2010, 25:487-506.
4. Cai Y., Schiffbauer J.D., Hua H., Xiao S. Morphology and paleoecology of the late Ediacaran tubular fossil Conotubus hemiannulatus from the Gaojiashan Lagerstätte of southern Shaanxi Province, South China. Precambrian Research 2011, 191:46-57.
5. Chen Z., Sun W.G. Late Sinian (tubular) metazoan fossils: Cloudina and Sinotubulites from southern Shaanxi. Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica 2001, 18:180-202.
6. Chen Z., Bengtson S., Zhou C., Hua H., Yue Z. Tube structure and original composition of Sinotubulites: shelly fossils from the late Neoproterozoic in southern Shaanxi, China. Lethaia 2008, 41:37-45.
7. Condon D., Zhu M., Bowring S., Wang W., Yang A., Jin Y. U-Pb ages from the Neoproterozoic Doushantuo Formation, China. Science 2005, 308:95-98.
8. Conway Morris S., Mattes B.W., Chen M. The early skeletal organism Cloudina: new occurrences from Oman and possibly China. American Journal of Science 1990, 290-A:245-260.
9. Cortijo I., Mus M.M., Jensen S., Palacios T. A new species of Cloudina from the terminal Ediacaran of Spain. Precambrian Research 2010, 176:1-10.
10. Droser M.L., Gehling J.G. Synchronous aggregate growth in an abundant new Ediacaran tubular organism. Science 2008, 319:1660-1662.
11. Feng W., Chen Z., Sun W. Diversification of skeletal microstructures of organisms through the interval from the latest Precambrian to the Early Cambrian. Science in China Series D 2003, 46:977-985.
12. Germs J.G.B. New shelly fossils from the Nama Group, South West Africa. American Journal of Science 1972, 272:752-761.
13. Glaessner M.F. Early Phanerozoic annelid worms and their geological and biological significance. Journal of the Geological Society of London 1976, 132:259-275.
14. Grant S.W.F. Shell structure and distribution of Cloudina, a potential index fossil for the terminal Proterozoic. American Journal of Science 1990, 290-A:261-294.
15. Grotzinger J.P., Watters W.A., Knoll A.H. Calcified metazoans in thrombolite-stromatolite reefs of the terminal Proterozoic Nama Group, Namibia. Paleobiology 2000, 26:334-359.
16. Hagadorn J.W., Waggoner B.M. Ediacaran fossils from the southwestern Great Basin, United States. Journal of Paleontology 2000, 74:349-359.
17. Hofmann H.J., Mountjoy E.W. Namacalathus-Cloudina assemblage in Neoproterozoic Miette Group (Byng Formation), British Columbia: Canada's oldest shelly fossils. Geology 2001, 29:1091-1094.
18. Hua H., Pratt B.R., Zhang L. Borings in Cloudina shells: complex predator-prey dynamics in the terminal Neoproterozoic. Palaios 2003, 18:454-459.
19. Hua H., Chen Z., Yuan X., Zhang L., Xiao S. Skeletogenesis and asexual reproduction in the earliest biomineralizing animal Cloudina. Geology 2005, 33:277-280.
20. Jiang G., Shi X., Zhang S., Wang Y., Xiao S. Stratigraphy and paleogeography of the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation (ca. 635-551Ma) in South China. Gondwana Research 2011, 19:831-849.
21. Meert J.G., Lieberman B.S. The Neoproterozoic assembly of Gondwana and its relationship to the Ediacaran-Cambrian radiation. Gondwana Research 2008, 14:5-21.
22. Noffke N. Microbial Mats in Sandy Deposits from the Archean Era to Today 2010, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
23. Noffke N., Gerdes G., Klenke T., Krumbein W.E. Microbially induced sedimentary structures - a new category within the classification of primary sedimentary structures. Journal of Sedimentary Research 2001, 71:649-656.
24. Noffke N., Beukes N., Bower D., Hazen R.M., Swift D.J.P. An actualistic perspective into Archean worlds-(cyano-)bacterially induced sedimentary structures in the siliciclastic Nhlazatse Section, 2.9 Ga Pongola Supergroup, South Africa. Geobiology 2008, 6:5-20.
25. Schieber J., Bose P.K., Eriksson P.G., Banerjee S., Sarkar S., Altermann W., Catuneanu O. Atlas of microbial mat features preserved within the siliciclastic rock record 2007, Elsevier, Amsterdam-Boston-Heidelberg-London-New York-Oxford-Paris.
26. Seilacher A. Biomat-related lifestyles in the Precambrian. Palaios 1999, 14:86-93.
27. Simonson B.M., Carney K.E. Roll-up structures: evidence of in situ microbial mats in late Archean deep shelf environments. Palaios 1999, 14:13-24.
28. Tahata M., Ueno Y., Ishikawa T., Sawaki Y., Murakami K., Han J., Shu D., Li Y., Guo J., Yoshida N., Komiya T. Carbon and oxygen isotope chemostratigraphies of the Yangtze platform, South China: Decoding temperature and environmental changes through the Ediacaran. Gondwana Research 2013, 23:333-353.
29. Warren L.V., Fairchild T.R., Gaucher C., Boggiani P.C., Poiré D.G., Anelli L.E., Inchausti J.C.G. Corumbella and in situ Cloudina in association with thrombolites in the Ediacaran Itapucumi Group, Paraguay. Terra Nova 2011, 23:382-389.
30. Weber B., Steiner M., Zhu M.Y. Precambrian-Cambrian trace fossils from the Yangtze Platform (South China) and the early evolution of bilaterian lifestyles. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2007, 254:328-349.
31. Wood R.A. Paleoecology of the earliest skeletal metazoan communities: implications for early biomineralization. Earth-Science Reviews 2011, 106:184-190.
32. Wood R.A., Grotzinger J.P., Dickson J.A.D. Proterozoic modular biomineralized metazoan from the Nama Group, Namibia. Science 2002, 296:2383-2386.
33. Xing Y., Ding Q., Luo H., He T., Wang Y. The Sinian-Cambrian Boundary of China. Bulletin of the Institute of Geology 1984, 1-262. Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences.
34. Yin L. New data of microfossils from Precambrian-Cambrian cherts in Ningqiang, southern Shaanxi. Acta Palaeontologica Sinica 1987, 26:187-195.
35. Zhang L. A discovery and preliminary study of the late stage of late Gaojiashan biota from Sinian in Ningqiang County, Shaanxi. Bulletin of the Xi'an Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences 1986, 13:67-88.
36. 13C chemostratigraphy of South China. Chemical Geology 2007, 237:89-108.
37. Zhu M.Y., Zhang J.M., Yang A.H. Integrated Ediacaran (Sinian) chronostratigraphy of South China. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 2007, 254:7-61.