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A nearshore Hirnantian brachiopod fauna from South China and its ecological significance

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Bing Huang Open the ORCID record for Bing Huang [Opens in a new window] ,
Jiayu Rong Open the ORCID record for Jiayu Rong [Opens in a new window] ,
David A.T. Harper Open the ORCID record for David A.T. Harper [Opens in a new window]  and
Hanghang Zhou
Bing Huang
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing210008, China ,
Jiayu Rong
Affiliation:
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing210008, China ,
David A.T. Harper
Affiliation:
Palaeoecosystems Group, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham University, DurhamDH1 3LE, UK
Hanghang Zhou
Affiliation:
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei230026, China
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Abstract

The brachiopods collected from the Kuanyinchiao Beds (Hirnantian, uppermost Ordovician) in Meitan and Zunyi counties, northern Guizhou, include 13 species and one undetermined taxon, dominated by Hirnantia sagittifera (M'Coy, 1851) (which accounts for over one-third of the specimens), together with common Eostropheodonta hirnantensis (M'Coy, 1851). They are assigned to the Hirnantia–Eostropheodonta Community, which probably inhabited a shallow-water, nearshore Benthic Assemblage (BA) 2 to upper BA 3 environment. Population analysis shows that the community was well adapted to this environment after the first phase of the end-Ordovician mass extinction. Representative specimens of all the species are illustrated, and a new species, Minutomena missa, is described herein. The variation in Hirnantia sagittifera was noted in many of previous studies but was not statistically evidenced. Here we have measured representative specimens of that famous species from the major paleoplates and terranes in the world, along with other species assigned to the genus from South China. Having used principal component analysis (PCA), significant variations in the species are documented statistically and revised, and three nominal species, one subspecies, and two morphotypes are now reassigned to Hirnantia sagittifera sensu stricto.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 94 , Issue 2 , March 2020 , pp. 239 - 254
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