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Aerosol suspension feeding and current velocities: distributional controls for late Osagean crinoids

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2016

Thomas W. Kammer  and
William I. Ausich
Thomas W. Kammer
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506
William I. Ausich
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Mineralogy, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210
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Abstract

Distributional patterns of late Osagean (Mississippian) crinoids from the east-central United States are examined using multivariate analysis of crinoid species diversity and species abundance data. We confirm previous hypotheses that three well-defined crinoid associations existed during the late Osagean. These associations were dominated, respectively, by 1) monobathrid camerates preserved in carbonate packstones; 2) poteriocrine inadunates in higher-energy siltstones and sandstones; and 3) disparid inadunates, cyathocrine inadunates, and flexibles in mudstones where neither monobathrids nor poteriocrines dominated. In conjunction with petrologic data on the enclosing sediments, the analyses suggest that these associations occurred along a spectrum of increasing current velocity at the seafloor. Camerates, poteriocrine inadunates, and flexibles are interpreted to display preferences for specific environmental conditions, whereas disparid and cyathocrine inadunates are inferred to be environmental generalists.

The different environmental distributions of the major crinoid groups are interpreted to be a function of the mode or modes of aerosol filtration feeding used by each group. This inference is possible through functional morphologic and morphometric studies of crinoid arms, because the skeletal elements of the arms, which are commonly preserved, are directly involved in feeding.

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Paleobiology , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , Fall 1987 , pp. 379 - 395
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