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Effects of the Mesozoic Marine Revolution on the taxonomic, morphologic, and biogeographic evolution of a group: aporrhaid gastropods during the Mesozoic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2016

Kaustuv Roy
Kaustuv Roy*
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Department of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago, 5734 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637
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Abstract

The mid-Mesozoic time was characterized by massive reorganization of the ecological structure of benthic marine communities. Although the general pattern of this “Mesozoic Marine Revolution” has been extensively documented, little is known about how it affected the taxonomic and morphologic diversities of individual lineages of organisms. Here I document group-level dynamics of the Mesozoic change using the fossil record of aporrhaid gastropods, a diverse and widespread family during that time. Using data gathered through field and museum work and extensive literature search, I compare and contrast patterns of taxonomic and morphologic change during the Jurassic and Cretaceous within a geographic framework. I also examine how the changes were manifested at different ecological and geographic scales.

The Mesozoic history of the Aporrhaidae includes two major radiations separated by a period of overall stability. While both radiations increased the taxonomic diversity of the family, they had very different morphologic consequences, resulting in a striking discordance between morphologic and taxonomic diversity patterns. The initial radiation during Bajocian-Bathonian times established two large morphologic groups within the aporrhaids based mainly on differences in the shape of the apertural margin. The second, post-Albian, radiation saw higher origination rates and increased taxonomic and morphologic diversity among genera having simpler apertural margins, while genera with elaborate multidigitate apertures declined in taxonomic diversity but not in morphologic diversity. During post-Albian times the group with simpler apertural margins also tended to be more widespread compared to the group with multidigitate apertures. Comparison of regional and global taxonomic diversities reveals a discordance between regional and global taxonomic patterns: while diversities within certain geographic areas increased in concert with the global radiation, those for other areas decreased substantially, resulting in a remarkably constant average taxonomic diversity within geographic areas.

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Paleobiology , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , Summer 1994 , pp. 274 - 296
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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