La radiation des échinodermes au Paléozoïque inférieur, l’exemple des blastozoaires
- 4 January 2009
- journal article
- Published by Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle in Comptes Rendus Palevol
- Vol. 8 (2-3) , 179-188
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2008.09.004
Abstract
Le sous-phylum Blastozoa est un des groupes d’échinodermes les plus diversifiés (dix classes) au début du Paléozoïque. Après révision critique de leur squelette, leurs morphologies en apparence très variées sont en fait homogènes. Leur diversité montre deux pics (Drumien, Sandbien) liés par un événement de fortes apparitions génériques au Cambrien supérieur-Ordovicien inférieur. Les blastozoaires montrent un fort endémisme au Cambrien et un important provincialisme à l’Ordovicien inférieur et moyen. Ils deviennent cosmopolites à l’Ordovicien supérieur, par plusieurs événements migratoires. Ils sont restreints à la Laurentia et à Baltica au Silurien inférieur. The subphylum Blastozoa is the most abundant and among the most diversified of echinoderm groups during the Early Paleozoic. Reappraisal of their highly diverse anatomies suggests that their superficially incomparable morphologies are actually relatively homogeneous among the major blastozoan clades. Their generic diversity shows two peaks (Drumian, Sandbian), linked by a single origination event during the Cambrian-Lower Ordovician interval. During the lower Middle Ordovician, blastozoans were distributed in distinct provinces, but became progressively more cosmopolitan during the Upper Ordovician. After the Late Ordovician crisis event, blastozoans were restricted to the Laurentian and the Baltic margins.Keywords
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