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Morphological diversity of Carboniferous arthropods and insights on disparity patterns through the Phanerozoic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2016

Andrea Stockmeyer Lofgren ,
Roy E. Plotnick  and
Peter J. Wagner
Andrea Stockmeyer Lofgren
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 West Taylor Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7059. E-mail: andrea.lofgren@alumni.duke.edu
Roy E. Plotnick*
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 West Taylor Street, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7059. E-mail: plotnick@uic.edu
Peter J. Wagner
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, The Field Museum, Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605. E-mail: pwagner@fieldmuseum.org
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*Corresponding author
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Abstract

Previous studies of overall arthropod disparity have compared Cambrian and Recent biotas, without considering taxa of intermediate age. This study explored morphological diversity among Carboniferous arthropods, primarily from the well-known Westphalian Mazon Creek Lagerstätte. Over 100 arthropod species, belonging to 48 orders, were examined. The data set is composed of nearly equal numbers of crustacean, arachnid, and insect species, with lower numbers of merostomes. Trilobites have not been found at Mazon Creek. However, some Late Carboniferous trilobite species were included in order to obtain a more representative picture of global Carboniferous arthropod disparity.

The absence, presence, or state of 66 shared characters was recorded for each species, as well as individual autapomorphies. Overall disparity was determined from the Euclidean distance analysis between taxa or variance along principal coordinates analyses (PCO) axes. Results indicate that arthropod disparity has not been greatly reduced throughout the Phanerozoic as was previously suggested. However, the regions of occupied morphospace have rotated over time.

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Paleobiology , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , Summer 2003 , pp. 349 - 368
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