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Evolution of the Early Silurian rhynchonellide brachiopod Stegerhynchus, Anticosti Island, eastern Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Jisuo Jin  and
Paul Copper
Jisuo Jin
Affiliation:
1Department of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London N6A 5B7, Canada
Paul Copper
Affiliation:
2Department of Earth Sciences, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6, Canada
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Abstract

Stegerhynchus was perhaps the most common rhynchonellide brachiopod in the Early Silurian (Llandovery) postextinction brachiopod fauna of North America. In shell morphology, it closely resembles the Late Ordovician rhynchonellide Rhynchotrema in having a rostrate shell posterior and simple, strong costae. It differs internally from Rhynchotrema primarily in having a much-reduced septalium (=cruralium). Superficially Stegerhynchus has a conservative, typically simple, rhynchonellide morphology, but detailed biometric analysis of large samples from the >400 m-thick Llandovery (mid-Aeronian to mid-Telychian) tropical carbonate succession of Anticosti Island reveals that the genus underwent significant evolutionary and ecophenotypic changes over about five million years. The shell length/width ratios of Stegerhynchus peneborealis from sediments of a low-energy, muddy substrate tend to be lower than those of S. deltolingulatus new species from high-energy, reef or inter-reef settings. A wider shell and hingeline probably had a greater stability on the soft seafloor. Also a wider shell appears to be associated with a larger (relative to shell size) sulcus size at the anterior margin. The changes in relative sulcus size either represent ecophenotypic variation in response to environmental conditions, or a random effect of evolutionary selection through time. Both multivariate and single-character analyses demonstrate that two important biometric features, the apical angle and shell flank rib number, separate all forms of Anticosti Island Stegerhynchus (middle Aeronian to middle Telychian) from the widely cited European species Stegerhynchus borealis (latest Telychian-Wenlock) from the type area of Gotland, Sweden. The temporal changes of these two characters are interpreted to be evolutionary modifications.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 78 , Issue 5 , September 2004 , pp. 866 - 883
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