التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Herpetogaster collinsi from the Cambrian of China elucidates the dispersal and palaeogeographic distribution of early deuterostomes and the origin of the ambulacrarian larva. |
| المؤلفون: |
Xianfeng Yang, Julien Kimmig, Schiffbauer, James D., Shanchi Peng |
| المصدر: |
PeerJ; Nov2023, p1-19, 19p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
GONDWANA (Continent), SESSILE organisms, CAMBRIAN explosion (Evolution), LARVAE, SPECIES distribution, LAURENTIA (Continent) |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
HUNAN Sheng (China) |
| مستخلص: |
The Cambrian Radiation represents one of the largest diversification events in Earth history. While the resulting taxonomic diversity is exceptional, relatively few of these novel species can be traced outside the boundaries of a single palaeocontinent. Many of those species with cosmopolitan distributions were likely active swimmers, presenting opportunity and means to conquer new areas, but this would not have been the case for sessile organisms. Herpetogaster is a lower to middle Cambrian (Series 2-Miaolingian, Stage 3-Wuliuan) genus of sessile, stalked, filter-feeding deuterostomes with two species, H. collinsi and H. haiyanensis, known respectively from Laurentia and Gondwana. Here, we expand the distribution of H. collinsi to Gondwana with newly discovered specimens from the Balang Formation of Hunan, China. This discovery raises questions on the origin of the genus and how sessile organisms were able to disperse over such a broad distance in the lower Cambrian. As Herpetogaster has been recovered at the base of the Ambulacrarian tree in recent phylogenies, a planktonic larval stage is suggested, which implies, that the last common ancestor of the Ambulacraria might have already had planktonic larvae or that such larvae developed multiple times within the Ambulacraria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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