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Correlation of the Cambrian Evolutionary Radiation: geochronology, evolutionary stasis of earliest Cambrian (Terreneuvian) small shelly fossil (SSF) taxa, and chronostratigraphic significance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2016

ED LANDING  and
ARTEM KOUCHINSKY
ED LANDING*
Affiliation:
New York State Museum, 222 Madison Avenue, Albany, NY 12230, USA
ARTEM KOUCHINSKY
Affiliation:
Department of Palaeobiology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden
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†Author for correspondence: ed.landing@nysed.gov
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Abstract

Early faunas with Watsonella crosbyi with or without Aldanella spp. have been equated with the Siberian Tommotian Stage (uppermost Terreneuvian) and used to define a proposed Cambrian Stage 2 base. Much earlier Terreneuvian occurrences are now shown by recovery of these micromolluscs below the I’ carbon excursion in the Siberian ‘Nemakit-Daldynian’ Stage and comparable δ13C excursions in the middle Meishucunian (China) and middle Chapel Island Formation (Avalonia). This δ13C excursion, a reliable Stage 2 marker, lies in a c. 10 Ma interval in the Cambrian Radiation in which long-ranged small shelly fossil taxa provide limited biostratigraphic resolution.

Keywords

Cambrian Evolutionary RadiationTerreneuvianTommotianMeishucunianSiberia
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Geological Magazine , Volume 153 , Issue 4 , July 2016 , pp. 750 - 756
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