A Middle Ordovician Burgess Shale-type fauna from Castle Bank, Wales (UK)

doi:10.1038/s41559-023-02038-4

	A Middle Ordovician Burgess Shale-type fauna from Castle Bank, Wales (UK)
	Botting, Joseph P. P.1,2; Muir, Lucy A. A.2; Pates, Stephen 3; McCobb, Lucy M. E.2; Wallet, Elise 4; Willman, Sebastian 4; Zhang, Yuandong 5,6,7; Ma, Junye 5,6
刊名	NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
	2023-05-01
页码	23
ISSN号	2397-334X
DOI	10.1038/s41559-023-02038-4
通讯作者	Botting, Joseph P. P.(acutipuerilis@yahoo.co.uk) ; Ma, Junye(jyma@nigpas.ac.cn)
英文摘要	The authors report a highly diverse Middle Ordovician Burgess Shale-type fauna from Wales (UK) that compares with the Burgess Shale and Chengjiang biotas in palaeoenvironment and preservational style. Burgess Shale-type faunas are critical to our understanding of animal evolution during the Cambrian, giving an unrivalled view of the morphology of ancient organisms and the ecology of the earliest animal-dominated communities. Rare examples in Lower Ordovician strata such as the Fezouata Biota illustrate the subsequent evolution of ecosystems but only from before the main phase of the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event. Later Ordovician Konservat-Lagerstatten are not directly comparable with the Burgess Shale-type faunas as they do not represent diverse, open-shelf communities, limiting our ability to track ecological development through the critical Ordovician biodiversification interval. Here we present the Castle Bank fauna: a highly diverse Middle Ordovician Burgess Shale-type fauna from Wales (UK) that is directly comparable with the Burgess Shale and Chengjiang biotas in palaeoenvironment and preservational style. The deposit includes animals with morphologies similar to the iconic Cambrian taxa Opabinia, Yohoia and Wiwaxia, combined with early examples of more derived groups such as barnacles. Many taxa such as kinorhynchs show the small sizes typical of modern faunas, illustrating post-Cambrian miniaturization. Castle Bank provides a new perspective on early animal evolution, revealing the next chapter in ecosystem development following the Chengjiang, Burgess Shale and Fezouata biotas.
资助项目	Warwickshire Geological Conservation Society, UK ; Chinese Academy of Sciences PIFI fellowships[2020VCB0013] ; Chinese Academy of Sciences PIFI fellowships[2018VCB0014] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)[42030510] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)[41972019] ; Strategic Priority Research Program (B) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDB26000000] ; Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Cambridge, UK) ; Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales ; IGCP project[653] ; IGCP project[735]
WOS关键词	PHYLLOPOD BED COMMUNITY ; LAGERSTATTEN ; FOSSILS ; BIOTA ; ASSEMBLAGES ; MORPHOLOGY ; ANIMALS ; CHINA ; ROCKS
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Evolutionary Biology
语种	英语
出版者	NATURE PORTFOLIO
WOS记录号	WOS:000980037500004
资助机构	Warwickshire Geological Conservation Society, UK ; Chinese Academy of Sciences PIFI fellowships ; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) ; Strategic Priority Research Program (B) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of Cambridge, UK) ; Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales ; IGCP project
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.nigpas.ac.cn/handle/332004/42256]
专题	中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所
通讯作者	Botting, Joseph P. P.; Ma, Junye
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Nanjing Inst Geol & Palaeontol, Nanjing, Peoples R China 2.Amgueddfa Cymru Natl Museum Wales, Dept Nat Sci, Cathays Pk, Cardiff, Wales 3.Univ Cambridge, Dept Zool, Cambridge, England 4.Uppsala Univ, Dept Earth Sci, Palaeobiol Programme, Uppsala, Sweden 5.Chinese Acad Sci, Nanjing Inst Geol & Palaeontol, State Key Lab Palaeobiol & Stratig, Nanjing, Peoples R China 6.Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Excellence Life & Palaeoenvironment, Nanjing, Peoples R China 7.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Botting, Joseph P. P.,Muir, Lucy A. A.,Pates, Stephen,et al. A Middle Ordovician Burgess Shale-type fauna from Castle Bank, Wales (UK)[J]. NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION,2023:23.
APA	Botting, Joseph P. P..,Muir, Lucy A. A..,Pates, Stephen.,McCobb, Lucy M. E..,Wallet, Elise.,...&Ma, Junye.(2023).A Middle Ordovician Burgess Shale-type fauna from Castle Bank, Wales (UK).NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION,23.
MLA	Botting, Joseph P. P.,et al."A Middle Ordovician Burgess Shale-type fauna from Castle Bank, Wales (UK)".NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION (2023):23.