Calcareous tubeworms of the Phanerozoic

Vinn, Olev; Mutvei, Harri

doi:10.3176/earth.2009.4.07

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“…7C-E) can reach up to 4-5 mm in diameter, and tubes of the only known Recent species G. piloseta (Perkins, 1991) have diameters about 0.5 mm. Sabellids seem to have a primitive biomineralisation system compared to that of serpulids (Vinn and Mutvei, 2009), and thus their earlier representatives may be interpreted as common ancestors of calcified sabellids and serpulids.…”

Section: Possible Calcareous Tubeworms Of the Late Paleozoicmentioning

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“…However, the most ancient calcareous tubes of cirratulids are known from the late Oligocene (~25 Ma) in North America (Fischer et al, 1989;2000), suggesting that cirratulids acquired tube calcification quite late and independently from serpulids and sabellids (Vinn and Mutvei, 2009).…”

Section: Cenozoic (66 Ma) To Recent: the Rise Of Recent Serpulid Faunamentioning

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“…According to the hypothesis by Vinn and Mutvei (2009), supported by Smith et al (2013), ocean chemistry was the dominant factor controlling the evolution of serpulid tube mineralogy over geological time periods with differing conditions favouring the precipitation of a certain mineral (so-called "calcitic" and "aragonitic" seas, see Stanley, 2006). According to this idea, plesiomorphic serpulids of clade BI tend to have aragonitic mineralogy because they originated and diverged in aragonitic seas of the Triassic period, while more advanced calcitic serpulids of clade A mainly evolved during the Jurassic-Cretaceous time, which was the epoch of calcitic seas.…”

Section: Tube Mineral Composition: New Cues For Serpulid Evolutionmentioning

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“…The "serpulid" reefs from Paleozoic sediments were formed not by true annelids, but by tentaculitoids, the group closely related to lophophorates (Vinn and Mutvei, 2009). The earliest true serpulid build-ups are known from the Late Triassic (Norian) of Europe (ten Hove and van den Hurk, 1993;Berra and Jadoul, 1996;Cirilli et al, 1999), around the Triassic-Liassic boundary in Spain (Braga and López-López, 1989), and Middle Jurassic of Southeastern Spain (Navarro et al, 2008).…”

Section: Serpulid Reefs and Sedimentsmentioning

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“…Jäger 1983Jäger , 1993Jäger , 2005) discuss evolution and geological history of fossil serpulids. The only comprehensive overview of the entire serpulid fossil record in the Phanerozoic by Götz (1931), and a short summary by Regenhardt (1964) are now clearly outdated, and the most recent review (Vinn and Mutvei, 2009) focuses mainly on false serpulids from the Paleozoic.…”

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Ippolitov, A.P., Vinn, O., Kupriyanova, E.K. and Jäger, M. 2014. Written in stone: history of serpulid polychaetes through time. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 71: 123-159.Although the fossil record of annelids in general is poor, calcareous tube-building Serpulidae are a notable exception. The "stumbling block" of understanding the serpulid fossil record is obtaining reliable taxonomic interpretations of fossil tubes based on morphology. Luckily, serpulid tubes demonstrate high variety of ultrastructures and nonuniform mineralogical composition, which can be used as new tools for decrypting the fossil record. Ancient Late Ediacaran (580-541 Ma) and Paleozoic (541-252 Ma) rocks contain diverse tubicolous fossils that have often been erroneously interpreted as annelids, and serpulids, in particular. Palaeozoic to Middle Jurassic coiled spirorbiform tubes, often referred to as Spirorbis, had been shown to be microconchids, a group of probable lophophorate affinity. The most ancient records of unequivocal serpulids date back to the Middle Triassic (~244 Ma) of the Mesozoic, and from the Earliest Jurassic (~200 Ma) fossil serpulids become common. From the latest Jurassic (~146 Ma) serpulids colonised hydrocarbon seep environments and possibly also penetrated the deep sea. Concerted efforts of paleontologists and zoologists are needed for further understanding of serpulid evolutionary history. The serpulid fossil record can become a valuable instrument for calibration of "molecular clocks" in polychaetes, which would allow dating not only divergence events in serpulids, but also in annelid groups that lack a representative fossil record.

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Section: Possible Calcareous Tubeworms Of the Late Paleozoicmentioning

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Section: Cenozoic (66 Ma) To Recent: the Rise Of Recent Serpulid Faunamentioning

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Section: Tube Mineral Composition: New Cues For Serpulid Evolutionmentioning

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Section: Serpulid Reefs and Sedimentsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Early Triassic microconchids from the Perth Basin, Western Australia: Palaeoecology and flourishing in the aftermath of theend‐Permianmass extinction

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Handling Editor: M. Luo Microconchids are small spiral worm tubes convergent with spirorbin polychaetes, and they are not a well-known fossil group in terms of taxonomy and spatiotemporal distributions. Here, we report for the first time microconchid species Microconchus cf. utahensis from the Lower Triassic borehole sections in the Perth Basin, Western Australia, which were situated in the interior sea of inland Gondwana during the Permian-Triassic (P-Tr) transition. The newly found microconchids encrust bivalve Claraia shells, which occur in the forms of shell beds in core samples of boreholes in the Perth Basin. These microconchids, together with Claraia spp., form a high-abundance, low-diversity assemblage, which lived in a shallow, restricted interior sea, with euxinic to anoxic redox conditions. These tiny encrusting organisms flourished in the oxygen-poor habitats, where other benthos was very rare. They represent disaster forms in the aftermath of the P-Tr mass extinction. Global dataset of the Triassic microconchids shows that this clade inhabited a wide range of environments from continental basins, nearshore, restricted shallow sea, restricted inner platform, open platform, to shelf and basin, all of which were oxygen-limited settings in that time. Geographically, microconchids were widespread in the low-latitude regions (i.e., South China of eastern Palaeo-Tethys, western Palaeo-Tethys, Neo-Tethys, western coasts, and atolls of the Panthalassic Ocean) and to northern and southern moderate-high latitude regions (i.e., Greenland of Boreal seas and Perth Basin of inland Gondwana, respectively) during the Early Triassic. The spatiotemporal distributions of microconchids suggest the flourishing of disaster organisms following the P-Tr extinction. Both small body size and high tolerance to environmental stresses promoted microconchids to succeed in the Triassic.

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Calcareous tubeworms of the Phanerozoic

Cited by 122 publications

References 69 publications

Written in stone: history of serpulid polychaetes through time

Written in stone: history of serpulid polychaetes through time

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Early Triassic microconchids from the Perth Basin, Western Australia: Palaeoecology and flourishing in the aftermath of theend‐Permianmass extinction

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