Ecophenotypic variation of the Devonian benthic ostracod species Cavellina rhenana Krömmelbein, 1954: A paleoenvironmental proxy for the Ardenne (France–Belgium) and Rheno-Hercynian realm

Ostracods (Crustacea) as shelf to basin indicators: evidence from Late Devonian Yangdi and Nandong sections in Guangxi, South China

“…salinity, bathymetry, temperature, hydrodynamics, oxygenation and nutrients, etc.) (Lethiers, 1981;Casier, 1985;Casier and Olempska, 2008;Olempska and Belka, 2010;Casier et al, 2011;Racheboeuf et al, 2012;Maillet et al, 2013;Gong, 2015a, b, 2017;.…”

Late Eifelian and Early Givetian ostracod assemblages from Wellin, Hotton and On-Jemelle (Ardenne, Dinant Synclinorium, Belgium). Paleoenvironmental implications

“…The leperditicopid ostracods belonging to the Hermannina genus are frequently abundant in the Trois-Fontaines Fm and sometimes associated with ostracods belonging to the euryhaline genera Cavellina and Coeloenellina Maillet et al, 2013b). This monospecificity indicates lagoonal environments confirmed by the sedimentological analysis.…”

“…Besides this, ostracods are excellent environmental indicators both in recent and deep-past time (e.g. Maillet et al, 2013b;Trog et al, 2013) as their carapace is able to record fine fluctuations of their living water environment. The high sensitivity of ostracods to environment is related to their ontogenetic growth, presenting several molting stages as usual in arthropods, but during which chemical elements constituting the new carapace are directly picked-up in the water (Turpen and Angel, 1971).…”

Late Devonian benthic ostracods from western Junggar, NW China: Implications for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction

“…Ostracoda are microcrustacea that first appeared in the Early Ordovician and are still developed today (Horne, Cohen, & Martens, ; Siveter, ). They are very sensitive to the ambient environment conditions and variations, such as salinity, bathymetry, temperature, hydrodynamics, oxygenation, and nutrients (Casier & Olempska, ; Jones, ; Maillet et al, ; Olempska & Belka, ; Racheboeuf et al, ). Ostracods may offer special insights into the characteristics and evolution of the Devonian global bioenvironmental events (Becker & Braun, ; Lethiers & Raymond, ; Song & Gong, ).…”

“…Until recently, most studies on the palaeoecology of Devonian ostracods have been conducted in the continental margins or epicontinental basin context, primarily in Europe and North America (e.g., Bandel & Becker, ; Becker, , , , ; Becker & Bless, ; Casier, , , ; Maillet et al, ), as well as in South China (Wang, , ). Casier (, , ) proposed a novel ostracod assemblage denomination, that is, Eifelian Mega‐Assemblage (=Assemblages 0‐III), Thüringian Mega‐Assemblage (=Assemblage IV), and Myodocopid Mega‐Assemblage (=Assemblage V), which correspond to an environmental gradient from the nearshore to the deep basins.…”