LethaiaPub Date : 2021-05-10DOI: 10.1111/let.12421
Jan J. Król, Julien Denayer, Pawe? Wolniewicz, Miko?aj K. Zapalski
{"title":"Heliolitid corals and their competitors: a case study from the Wellin patch reefs, Middle Devonian, Belgium","authors":"Jan J. Król, Julien Denayer, Pawe? Wolniewicz, Miko?aj K. Zapalski","doi":"10.1111/let.12421","DOIUrl":"10.1111/let.12421","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Wellin patch reefs are small Upper Eifelian build?ups within the fine?grained argillaceous limestone of the Hanonet Formation. Whereas the reefs themselves are not well exposed, their fossil assemblage is accessible in the hills near the town of Wellin, approximately 40xA0km SE of Dinant in Belgium. It is especially rich in massive stromatoporoids, heliolitids and other tabulate corals. They exhibit predominantly domical and bulbous morphologies. This paper focuses primarily on the palaeoautoecology of the heliolitid corals and their relationships with other organisms. Cases of mutual overgrowth between heliolitids, other corals and stromatoporids suggest a high degree of competition for space on the reefs, possibly related to the scarcity of hard substrates. Coral and stromatoporoid growth forms, as well as the prevalence of micritic matrix, point to a relatively low energy environment. However, abundant growth interruption surfaces, sediment intercalations and rejuvenations of corals suggest episodically increased hydrodynamic regime and sediment supply. It is inferred that the patch reefs developed in a relatively shallow environment, where the reefal assemblage was regularly affected by storms. Heliolitids exhibited high sediment tolerance and relied on passive sediment removal for survival. They also could regenerate effectively and commonly overgrew their epibionts, after the colony’s growth was hampered by the sediment. This is recorded in extremely abundant growth interruption surfaces, which allow the analysis of the impact of sediment influxes on the heliolitid corals.</p>","PeriodicalId":49912,"journal":{"name":"Lethaia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/let.12421","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75953486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LethaiaPub Date : 2021-05-10DOI: 10.1111/LET.12424
J. Maletz
{"title":"Silurian stratigraphy and graptolite faunas of the Mora 001 and Solberga 1 drill cores, Siljan District, central Sweden","authors":"J. Maletz","doi":"10.1111/LET.12424","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/LET.12424","url":null,"abstract":"The Mora 001 and Solberga 1 drill cores provide the best available overview on the early Silurian (Llandovery, Rhuddanian to Telychian) graptolite succession available for the Siljan Ring impact structure of central Sweden. The Solberga 1 succession includes a nearly complete graptolite succession from the Pernerograptus revolutus Biozone (late Rhuddanian) to the Oktavites spiralis Biozone (late Telychian). Older grapto- lite faunas are unknown from the Siljan region. The Mora 001 drill core includes a graptolitic succession from the Monoclimacis crenulata Biozone to the O. spiralis Bio- zone, found in two lithostratigraphically separated lithological units here identi fi ed as the Kallholn Formation. A slice of the Orsa Sandstone Formation of possible later Sil- urian age is tectonically introduced into the Kallholn Formation in the Mora 001 drill core. The strong tectonic deformation of the Kallholn Formation in both drill cores can easily be understood through the Devonian impact history of the region. □ Dalarna, graptolite biostratigraphy, lithostratigraphy, Siljan impact, Silurian.","PeriodicalId":49912,"journal":{"name":"Lethaia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83708171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LethaiaPub Date : 2021-04-16DOI: 10.1111/let.12419
Magdy El Hedeny, Andrej Ernst, Ahmed El-Sabbagh, Mohammed Rashwan, Saleh Al Farraj, Ghada Al Basher, Heba Mansour
{"title":"Palaeoecology and taphonomy of a middle Miocene domical cheilostome bryozoan, Siwa Oasis, the northern Western Desert of Egypt","authors":"Magdy El Hedeny, Andrej Ernst, Ahmed El-Sabbagh, Mohammed Rashwan, Saleh Al Farraj, Ghada Al Basher, Heba Mansour","doi":"10.1111/let.12419","DOIUrl":"10.1111/let.12419","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A primary study of bioerosional structures and skeletobionts associated with an almost monotypic assemblage of free-lying bryozoan colonies of <i>Celleporaria?</i> sp., from the middle Miocene succession of the Siwa Oasis, Egypt, revealed four groups of encrusters (serpulids, sheet-like cheilostome bryozoans, balanoid barnacles and oysters) and eight different ichnotaxa. Undersides of the colonies have basal exterior walls, which are relatively richer in encrusters than are the convex sides. The dominant bioerosional structures were due to the boring activities of non-predatory organisms. The diversity of macro-bioerosional ichnotaxa is moderate and includes <i>Trypanites</i>, <i>Gastrochaenolites</i>, <i>Maeandropolydora</i>, <i>Caulostrepsis, Renichnus, Spirolites</i> and <i>Centrichnus</i>. In addition, some conical borings perpendicularly penetrating the shells could belong to the predatory tracemakers of <i>Oichnus</i>. Despite a moderate total ichnodiversity, the observed sample diversity of ichnofossils is low (about 35% of the total specimens studied). This is explained by a relatively high sedimentation rate with only short periods of exposure on the seafloor. The dome-shaped bryozoan occurrence is interpreted to represent a parautochthonous assemblage, which may have been influenced by shallow-water processes in response to storm activity.</p>","PeriodicalId":49912,"journal":{"name":"Lethaia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/let.12419","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75381077","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LethaiaPub Date : 2021-04-02DOI: 10.1111/let.12422
Maria Simonet Roda, Erika Griesshaber, Lucia Angiolini, David A.T. Harper, Ulrich Jansen, Maria Aleksandra Bitner, Daniela Henkel, Eloy Manzanero, Tamás Müller, Adam Tomašových, Anton Eisenhauer, Andreas Ziegler, Wolfgang W. Schmahl
{"title":"The evolution of thecideide microstructures and textures: traced from Triassic to Holocene","authors":"Maria Simonet Roda, Erika Griesshaber, Lucia Angiolini, David A.T. Harper, Ulrich Jansen, Maria Aleksandra Bitner, Daniela Henkel, Eloy Manzanero, Tamás Müller, Adam Tomašových, Anton Eisenhauer, Andreas Ziegler, Wolfgang W. Schmahl","doi":"10.1111/let.12422","DOIUrl":"10.1111/let.12422","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Thecideide brachiopods are an anomalous group of invertebrates. In this study, we discuss the evolution of thecideide brachiopods from the Triassic to the Holocene and base our results and conclusions on microstructure and texture measurements gained from electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD). In fossil and Recent thecideide shells, we observe the following mineral units: (1) nanometric to small granules; (2) acicles; (3) fibres; (4) polygonal crystals; and (5) large roundish crystals. We trace for thecideide shells the change of mineral unit characteristics such as morphology, size, orientation, arrangement and distribution pattern. Triassic thecideide shells contain extensive sections formed of fibres interspersed with large, roundish crystals. Upper Cretaceous to Pleistocene thecideide hard tissues consist of a matrix of minute to small grains reinforced by acicles and small polygonal crystals. Recent thecideide species form their shell of mineral units that show a wide range of shapes, sizes and arrangements. We find from Late Triassic to Recent a gradual decrease in mineral unit size, regularity of mineral unit morphology and orientation and the degree of calcite co-orientation. While crystallite co-orientation is the highest for fibrous microstructures, it is strikingly low for taxa that form their shell out of nanogranular to acicular mineral units. Our results indicate that Upper Jurassic species represent transitional forms between ancient taxa with fibrous shells and Recent forms that construct their shells of acicles and granules. We attribute the observed changes in microstructure and texture to be an adaptation to a different habitat and lifestyle associated with cementation to hard substrates.</p>","PeriodicalId":49912,"journal":{"name":"Lethaia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/let.12422","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87782888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LethaiaPub Date : 2021-04-01DOI: 10.1111/let.12398
Yifan Wang, Jin Peng, Qiujun Wang, R. Wen, Hui Zhang, Guang-ying Du, Y. Shao
{"title":"Moulting in the Cambrian oryctocephalid trilobite\u0000 Arthricocephalites xinzhaiheensis\u0000 from Guizhou Province, South China","authors":"Yifan Wang, Jin Peng, Qiujun Wang, R. Wen, Hui Zhang, Guang-ying Du, Y. Shao","doi":"10.1111/let.12398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/let.12398","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49912,"journal":{"name":"Lethaia","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2021-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79979488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}