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Stratigraphic sections are often sampled at well-defined discrete points. Because of the incompleteness of the fossil record, a particular species may not be observed even when it is extant at a sampling point. We introduce a model and Bayesian analysis for estimating the true time of disappearance of a lineage from a section in the face of the possibility that failure to find the species beyond its observed stratigraphic range may represent false negatives. We incorporate proper prior information, including an estimated longevity of the species and the probability that it will be observed if extant. Our analysis produces a posterior density for the true extinction time of the species. Summaries of this probability distribution provide a point estimate of the extinction time, a standard deviation for the uncertainty in the estimate, and confidence intervals for the time of extinction. We apply our model to stratigraphic ranges of benthic foraminifera collected from the early Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian and Turonian) from Eastbourne, England. 相似文献
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The Uncertainty in the True End Point of a Fossil''s Stratigraphic Range When Stratigraphic Sections Are Sampled Discretely 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Stratigraphic sections are often sampled at well-defined discrete points. Because of the incompleteness of the fossil record, a particular species may not be observed even when it is extant at a sampling point. We introduce a model and Bayesian analysis for estimating the true time of disappearance of a lineage from a section in the face of the possibility that failure to find the species beyond its observed stratigraphic range may represent false negatives. We incorporate proper prior information, including an estimated longevity of the species and the probability that it will be observed if extant. Our analysis produces a posterior density for the true extinction time of the species. Summaries of this probability distribution provide a point estimate of the extinction time, a standard deviation for the uncertainty in the estimate, and confidence intervals for the time of extinction. We apply our model to stratigraphic ranges of benthic foraminifera collected from the early Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian and Turonian) from Eastbourne, England. 相似文献
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Volcanism at the Permian-Triassic Boundary in South China and Its Effects on Mass Extinction 总被引：4，自引：0，他引：4
Yin Hongfu Huang Siji Zhang Kexin Yang Fengqing Ding Meihua Bi Xianmei Zhang Suxin 《《地质学报》英文版》1989,63(4):417-431
This paper discusses the clayrocks widespread at the Permian-Triassic boundary, which are mostly of volcanic origin. Volcanogenetic textures, structures and minerals such as high-temperature quartz are found in clayrocks at the Permian-Triassic boundary in many places. Thousands of microspherules have been collected from the Boundary clayrocks, many of which exhibit the typical features of the process from melting to cooling and solidification. indicating that they were formed by volcanic eruption or extraterrestrial impact. Volcanic effects on the Permian-Triassic mass extinction may be reflected in conodonts, algae and ammonoids. The Boundary clayrocks are found in many Permian-Triassic sections along the coast of Tethys. Their orighin remains to be studied. 相似文献
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A complete ichthyosaur rostrum, with 124 associated teeth, was recently discovered in Laux-Montaux locality, department of Drôme, southeastern France. The associated belemnites and ammonites indicate a late Valanginian age (Neocomites peregrinus Zone, Olcostephanus nicklesi Subzone) for this fossil, which consequently represents the first diagnostic ichthyosaur ever reported from Valanginian strata. This specimen also represents the first occurrence of Aegirosaurus outside the Tithonian (Upper Jurassic) lithographic limestones of Bavaria (southern Germany). Tooth morphology and wear pattern suggest that Aegirosaurus belonged to the “Pierce II/ Generalist” feeding guild, which was hitherto not represented in post-Liassic ichthyosaurs. Most Late Jurassic ichthyosaurs actually crossed the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary. 相似文献
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中三叠世安尼期罗平生物群海生爬行类研究新进展 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
2007年,中国地质调查局成都地质调查中心云南1∶5万区域地质调查项目组在距罗平县城东南15 km的罗雄镇大洼子村附近中三叠统关岭组二段地层中发现了罗平生物群。罗平生物群目前已经发现有海生爬行类、鱼类、节肢动物、棘皮动物、菊石、双壳、腹足类、腕足类、植物等十多个大类的化石,完好地体现了当时海洋生物的多样性,是目前已知化石分异度最高的三叠纪海生化石库之一。根据含化石地层中发现的微体化石牙形石Nicoraella Kockeli带,确认罗平生物群时代为中三叠世安尼期Pelsonian亚期。罗平生物群目前发现的海生爬行类种类丰富,基本涵盖了三叠纪时期主要的海生爬行类别,包括鱼龙类、鳍龙类、原龙类以及初龙类。中生代是对海生爬行类至关重要的时期。由于一直没有发现它们留下的遗迹化石,它们的运动模式还一直存在争议。云南罗平生物群海生爬行类研究中发现数百枚保存完好的幻龙类足迹——罗平双桨迹Dikoposichnus luopingensis,为研究其运动模式提供了直接的证据。另外罗平生物群中巨型捕食者张氏幻龙Nothosaurus zhangi的发现也支持了罗平双桨迹造迹者的存在。张氏幻龙拥有三叠纪世界上最大的头骨,这些处于食物链顶层的海生爬行类的繁盛说明当时生态系统已经很完善,代表了二叠纪末生物大灭绝之后海洋生态系统的全面复苏。 相似文献
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In November 2017, Bali's ‘great volcano’, Gunung Agung, erupted for the first time since 1963—leading to the evacuation of nearly 150 000 people from a preliminary danger zone within a radius of 9–12 km from the summit. Since the phreatic onset of the eruption on 21 November, intermittent magmatic (Vulcanian) explosions continued to threaten local residents and disrupt air traffic to and from Indonesia's favourite tourist destination. Whereas the opening of the eruption seems to have been less energetic than the opening of the 1963 events, as of January 2018, the volcanic Alert Level for Agung remains at the highest level. Indeed, it remains unclear at this point what course the eruption will take and how long it will last, and the possibility remains that the eruption may turn more energetic in the months to come. 相似文献
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本文主要描述了关岭生物群中一美丽盘江鱼龙标本（YIGM V30016）-Panjiansaurus epicharis Chen＆Cheng体内的胃融物。其组成物质为微晶含有机质胶磷质生物碎屑灰岩。其中生物碎屑主要为较小的鱼类骨碎片．其次含有少量的双壳类外壳，没有胃石。通过分析胃融物的成分，比较牙齿类型和身体特征等，认为盘江鱼龙主要以小型鱼类和双壳类为食，并不需胃石帮助消化食物。 相似文献
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Selenium (Se) is one of the key trace elements required by all animal and most plant life, and Se deficiencies in the food chain cause pathologies or death. Here we show from new geochemical analyses of trace elements in Phanerozoic marine pyrite that sustained periods of severe Se depletion in the past oceans correlate closely with three major mass extinction events, at the end of the Ordovician, Devonian and Triassic periods. These represent periods of Se depletion > 1.5–2 orders of magnitude lower than current ocean abundances, being within the range to cause severe pathological damage in extant Se-reliant organisms. Se depletion may have been one of several factors in these complex extinction scenarios. Recovery from the depletion/extinction events is likely part of a natural marine cycle, although rapid rises in global oxygen from sudden major increases in marine productivity and plant biomass after each extinction event may also have played a crucial role. 相似文献
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中特提斯是中生代中晚期存在于南、北大陆之间的海洋。该海洋在晚白垩世消亡后,遗留长千余公里的班公湖－怒江板块结合带。在大量研究成果中,对中特提斯如何消亡这一重大问题至今分歧甚大。不少研究者持洋壳俯冲消亡（东太平洋模式）观点,但在俯冲方向上却有向南或向北之别。笔者则认为中特提斯是一个具有众多互不相通、时代早晚不同的狭窄洋盆的特殊海洋,綦肖亡过程中根本未发生过大规模的洋壳俯冲,帮提出剪式闭合加地体逐次拼 相似文献
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《Boreas: An International Journal of Quaternary Research》2018,47(3):855-868
The laminated lacustrine succession at Ossówka in eastern Poland, which is largely the equivalent of MIS 11c, is amongst the best‐developed sites in Europe that cover this time period. Close inspection of the depth interval between 35.0 and 42.5 m in a 55‐m‐long core shows an environmental crisis at a depth of 40.95 m that lasted approximately 800 years and resulted in almost complete extinction of fir (Abies) from the communities existing at that time. Geochemical analyses reveal a simultaneous increase in sulphur in the deposits and a change in stable carbon and oxygen isotope ratios towards higher values, as well as a significant increase in the thickness of the laminae (up to 5 mm). Diatom studies show a clear increase in benthic diatoms in this interval, implying a decrease in water level. However, the predominance of such forms was probably caused by the elimination of planktonic diatoms by invasive blooms of Tetraedron, rather than lower lake levels, evidence of which was not noted in the pollen spectra. Hence, all these changes in the lake may have been triggered by the destruction of fir trees, the gradual decomposition of dead trunks and some inconspicuous geomorphological disturbances caused by wind throw. They resulted in a supply of micronutrients to the basin, an increase in varve thickness and rapid oscillations in the abundance and composition of algae and changes in the geochemical status of the lake. Rapid and significant drops in winter temperatures appear to be responsible for the extinction of fir. Alternatively, late frost in spring or hot and dry summers may have affected microsporophyll growth and the fir physiology as known from extant Abies populations. This environmental crisis, which is termed the Younger Holsteinian Oscillation (YHO), is noted at only a few sites. At Dethlingen (Germany), where hornbeam communities disappear at that time, a drop in summer temperatures is suggested to have been the driving force. We suggest that, at Ossówka, a drop in winter temperatures, late frost, or summer drought at the very start of the YHO are possible causes of the near‐extinction of fir. 相似文献
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《Earth》2009,93(3-4):99-116
The author, who investigated the Wolfe Creek, Australia, in 1962 and edited two Benchmark Sets of Readings on Meteorite Craters and possible Astroblemes in 1977 and 1979, reviews the state of knowledge at the present time. The text is concerned with terrestrial impact structures, geological features, without any consideration of extraterrestrial analogues. A handful of definitive publications are drawn on to present the story of terrestrial impact in a single article. The text covers historical aspects (briefly); the effect of target variations; the paucity of human observation of such large-scale events; distinction from volcanic (endogenous) structures; modification by geological processes; the transience of the crater initially formed on the target, and its subsequent modifications; the global geographic distribution of the 174 structures now listed (of which a number are dubious attributions); their distribution in geological time (many ages being known only known to wide limits, maximum or minimum values); their size distribution; calculations of impact frequencies; shock effects; processes on impact; the stages of formation; impact into shallow marine and deep sea targets; impacts on ice (about which little is known); and finally the input of impact into biotic extinctions. In this last lengthy section, the summaries of the conclusions of scientists researching impact on Earth and palaeontologists researching biotic impact are set side by side. It is concluded that, if the recent foraminiferal evidence obtained by Gerta Keller and associates is taken at its face value, the case of impact as a sole agent in extinction is non-existent: biotic extinction is clearly a complex process involving a number of causes, in some cases it was staggered in time, and different sets of organisms responded quite differently and surprisingly, even in the same extinction event. Extraterrestrial impact may have been one of the causes in some cases, but it may have been regional rather than global in its effects. We may never know how much input it had into the record of biotic extinction on Earth? An enormous amount of new knowledge has arisen from detailed studies of this new family of remarkable geological structures. 相似文献
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Dean R. Lomax Judy A. Massare 《Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. Geologists' Association》2018,129(6):770-773
An incomplete forefin in the collections of the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, is herein assigned to the rare leptonectid species, Leptonectes solei, known only from the west Dorset coast. It is only the third specimen of the species and is smaller than both the holotype and referred specimen. The new specimen is from the Lower Jurassic (lower Pliensbachian, Charmouth Mudstone Formation, Tragophylloceras ibex Ammonite Zone, Acanthopleuroceras valdani Ammonite Subzone) of Seatown, Dorset, UK. It confirms that all three species of Leptonectes were present in the Pliensbachian and expands the known diversity of ichthyosaurs for that time period. We show that isolated forefins of Leptonectes can be assigned to a species with a high degree of confidence. 相似文献
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Robert S. Thompson Thomas R. Van Devender Paul S. Martin Theresa Foppe Austin Long 《Quaternary Research》1980,14(3):360-376
Seven coprolites of the extinct Shasta ground sloth (Nothrotheriops shastense) were recently discovered in the Los Angeles County Museum collection from Shelter Cave, New Mexico. Three dung balls provided radiocarbon ages of 11,330, 12,330 and 12,430 yr B.P. Packrat (Neotoma) middens disclose a xeric juniper woodland at Shelter Cave during the sloth's occupation. Plant cuticles from the dung indicate that the ground sloth had a diet dominated by mormon tea (Ephedra) and other xerophytic shrubs. Pollen spectra from the coprolites have high representations of anemophilous plants and low representations of the dietary items shown in the cuticle analysis.Fifteen radiocarbon dates of sloth dung obtained since 1974 strengthen the hypothesis that sloth extinction occurred about 11,000 yr B.P. Paleoenvironmental studies indicate that ground sloths lived in juniper woodlands and montane conifer communities. Nothrotheriops commonly dined on shrubs that are still present in these habitats. It is difficult to explain the demise of the Shasta ground sloth by climatic change or dietary stress. Human predation remains as a possible explanation; ground sloth extinction appears to coincide with the time of Clovis mammoth hunters. 相似文献
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长期以来,科学家们对白垩纪-古近纪(K-Pg)之交陆地上生物大灭绝事件的趋势与灭绝速率争论不断。这些争论主要集中在脊椎动物上,尤其是非鸟恐龙。尽管如此,在理解K-Pg之交的生物响应以及相关的生态系统扰动时,植被的演化也是一个重要的组成部分。本文综述北半球内白垩纪晚期至古近纪Aquilapollenites古孢粉地理大区的孢粉地层学:在美国,晚白垩世生物组合以一系列关键门类的出现为标志,其中三冬期—坎潘期过渡期以Aquilapollenites以及相关的三突起型属的出现为标志,而马斯特里赫特阶的底界以睛形型的Wodehouseia属与Kurtzipitessp.的出现为标志;Wodehouseia spinata生物组合带以较大的个体与复杂的壁构造为特征,其中一系列的被子植物孢粉单元在K-Pg之交的记录中消失了,这使得K-Pg灭绝事件容易识别;具孔类花粉和Momipites与Caryapollenites两个属的关键种的出现,标志着古近纪孢粉植物群的复苏。近期的资料涵盖了北美大陆的大部分记录,而中国、欧洲和南半球的更多研究将更有助于理解全球陆地生物圈对K-Pg之交撞击事件的响应。 相似文献
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当今人类正在面临大气二氧化碳浓度升高、全球变暖、海洋酸化等一系列气候环境问题,有科学家提出这可能导致第6次生物大灭绝.类似的灾难事件在地质历史上多次发生,因此以史为鉴、以古示今才能更好地认识、应对和解决这些问题.显生宙最大的一次生物灭绝事件发生在2.52亿年前的二叠纪-三叠纪之交,超过90%的海洋物种永久消失.此次生物灭绝的过程和原因一直是科学家关注和致力解决的关键科学问题之一.近年来的研究表明当前人类面临的这些极端的气候环境事件在2.52亿年前也都有发生,而且更为严重.本文重点围绕近年来有关二叠纪-三叠纪之交的生物和环境事件研究进展,结合化石和环境指标的地质记录以及生物与环境之间的相互作用关系,总结生物灭绝的过程和形式及相关环境因子的贡献,并探讨残存生物能够躲过这次灾难事件得以延续和发展的内在机制和外界原因. 相似文献
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广西田东剖面二叠纪-三叠纪之交的生物绝灭及生态演化 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
本文以广西田东地区浅海相二叠系-三叠系剖面为研究对象,对二叠纪-三叠纪之交的生物绝灭与浅海生态环境演化进行了深入的探讨。镜下化石鉴定与统计结果表明在P/T界线附近生物物种两次急剧减少,一次为生物大绝灭所致,另一次为生物迁徙所致。另外,本剖面上所研究的物种的数量变化是突变的,而不是渐变的。在残存期内,腹足类生物较有孔虫生物表现出较强的自我恢复和适应环境的能力。整个剖面沉积为一个海浸的过程,其二叠系-三叠系界线之交生态环境发生了很大的变迁。 相似文献
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《Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. Geologists' Association》2017,128(3):332-339
The Wealden Supergroup of south-east England has long been of interest to palaeontologists because of its diverse flora and fauna. The Supergroup is Early Cretaceous in age, occupying the time period immediately after the enigmatic end-Jurassic extinction. Wealden faunas therefore have the potential to be informative about the tempo and mode of post-extinction recovery, but due to lack of exposure in this densely populated part of southern England, are difficult to sample. In the summer of 2012, a number of ex situ fossiliferous blocks of sandstone, siltstone and limestone were discovered from building excavations at Ardingly College, near Haywards Heath in West Sussex. The sedimentology of the blocks indicates that they are from the Valanginian Hastings Group, and that Ardingly College is underlain by the Grinstead Clay Formation, rather than the Ardingly Sandstone Member. The blocks contain a diverse invertebrate fauna and flora, as well as vertebrate remains, which are found in a distinct sandstone horizon that probably represents the Top Lower Tunbridge Wells pebble bed. A tooth from an ornithschian dinosaur cannot be referred to any of the ornithischian taxa known from the Wealden Supergroup, and therefore represents a new taxon. Teeth of the crocodilian Theriosuchus extend the known range of this taxon in the Wealden, while teeth of an ornithocheird pterosaur confirm the presence of these animals in the skies above the Wealden sub-basins. Fusainized plant remains and the wing-case of a cupedid beatle indicate that wildfire was a ubiquitous feature of the Weald Sub-basin during the Valanginian. 相似文献
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《Earth》2008,90(3-4):97-115
Over 60 faunal species disappeared from the Australian continent during the Middle–Late Pleistocene. Most of these animals were large to gigantic marsupials, birds and reptiles. A terminal extinction date of 46.4 kyr has been proposed for the megafauna, with all sites containing younger fossil megafauna dismissed by some researchers because of questions over stratigraphic integrity or chronologies. The timing of the extinctions is argued to be broadly coincident with estimates of first colonization of the continent by modern humans, and explanatory extinction models involving humans have subsequently gained currency. However there is considerable evidence to suggest that in some parts of the continent, people and some species of megafauna may have co-existed well beyond 46.4 kyr. In other places, such as Tasmania and the north of the continent, there is no known record of a human–megafauna temporal overlap. A review of the available evidence indicates that only 13 species of megafauna were extant on human arrival in Australia. The archaeology of this period indicates that rather than a focus on big game hunting or ‘firestick farming’, it was characterized by regional variability in subsistence strategies consistent with the range of environmental zones. At the present time there is no substantive argument for a terminal extinction date of 46.4 kyr, the current evidence indicating that there is no specific time period that correlates to any single mass extinction event. On the basis of available evidence arguments for either human or climatic causation are entirely circumstantial and implicitly require acceptance of many unproven assumptions. Claims to have eliminated climate as a primary driver are premature and the recent focus on delivering ‘proof’ of human causation in Pleistocene faunal extinctions diverts attention from achieving a better understanding of the differential impacts of climate change and short term climatic flux in a land of environmental extremes. 相似文献