Faculty Publications
Accelerated Rates Of Foraminiferal Origination And Extinction During The Late Paleozoic Ice Age
Document Type
Article
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Journal of Foraminiferal Research
Volume
38
Issue
1
First Page
74
Last Page
84
Abstract
Foraminifers experienced increased taxonomic diversity, increased rates of origination and extinction and shorter mean species durations during the Late Paleozoic ice age (LPIA) than during the immediately pre- and post-glacial intervals, a pattern opposite to that exhibited by brachiopods and other marine invertebrates. Much, but not all, of the increase in evolutionary rates can be attributed to the origin and rapid diversification of the fusulinoideans, a narrowly specialized group that was prone to high rates of extinction and speciation under the variable, cyclothemic conditions of he LPIA. Increased rates of evolution among non-fusulinoidean foraminifers during the LPIA also could be related in some way to glacioeustatically induced instability of neritic environments.
Department
Department of Earth Science
Original Publication Date
1-1-2008
DOI of published version
10.2113/gsjfr.38.1.74
Recommended Citation
Groves, John R. and Lee, Adam, "Accelerated Rates Of Foraminiferal Origination And Extinction During The Late Paleozoic Ice Age" (2008). Faculty Publications. 2515.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facpub/2515
