Quantitative biostratigraphy and species evolutionary sequence |
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| Authors: | Xu Guirong Gong Shuyun Wang Yongbiao YUAN Wei |
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| Institution: | Faculty of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China |
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| Abstract: | Introduction of species evolutionary sequence into the quantitative biostratigraphy is a significant work, either for studying
biologic evolution or for making stratigraphic correlation and reconstructing geologic history. The quantitative biostratigraphy
is to determine biostratigraphic event sequences by using probabilistic analysis. The evolutionary sequence systematics can
efficiently ascertain species evolutionary sequences. Two methods have been proposed to determine the sequence of species-disappearance
events: (1) species extinction events can be closed by last occurrence events using quantitative biostratigraphic analysis;
(2) the duration of a species may be approximately replaced by the duration of its parent species. To combine these two methods
for determining the sequence of species disappearance is the best way up to now. A consulting standard sequence that consists
of the speciation sequence of Permian waagenophylloid corals and the biostratigraphic event sequence of other important fossils
in Permian is used as an example. The group spearman rank-correlation test is used to test the consulting standard sequence
by comparing four types of calculations and two kinds of sequences and to find abnormal events. Based on the found abnormal
events in the test, the consulting standard sequence is revised to deal with different conditions. Sequences of speciation
and species-disappearance, and species duration are determined. Application of species evolutionary sequence to quantitative
biostratigraphy can largely improve the quality of biostratigraphic event sequence. In stratigraphic correlation, furthermore,
event sequences have higher precision than range biozones. |
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| Keywords: | evolutionary sequence systematics quantitative biostratigraphy speciation sequence species-disappearance sequence |
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