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The life orientation of concavo-convex brachiopods: overturning the paradigm

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2016

Halard L. Lescinsky
Halard L. Lescinsky*
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Department of Geology, University of California, Davis, California 95616
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Abstract

Concavo-convex brachiopods are generally assumed to have lived with their convex valves against the sediment. This orientation is based primarily on the a priori assumption that the upturned commissure would prevent fouling of the brachiopods' mantle cavity. Here, I present epibiontic and taphonomic evidence from orthids and nonproductid strophomenids that concavo-convex brachiopods lived in the reverse life orientation, with the convex valve on top.

Ten testable epibiontic and taphonomic criteria are proposed to establish the uppermost valve during encrustation and whether epibionts encrusted primarily live or dead hosts. The criteria are evaluated for 11 collections of Ordovician and Devonian nonproductid concavo-convex brachiopods that contain a total of over 500 brachiopods and 4000 epibionts. In all cases, the results support a convex-up orientation and the encrustation of live hosts. Five criteria concern epibiont growth patterns and show that (1) epibionts predominate on convex valves, (2) epibionts are not restricted to shell margins, (3) distinct exposed and cryptic faunas, as predicted theoretically and described in previous studies, exist on convex and concave valves respectively, (4) epibiont colonies were often truncated by the commissures and hinges of live hosts, and (5) growth patterns of some epibionts indicate live hosts. Five taphonomic criteria show that (1) concavo-convex shells have greater epibiont cover than other morphologies, (2) internal surfaces of disarticulated specimens are rarely encrusted, (3) interiors of articulated specimens are rarely mud-filled, (4) standard taphofacies indicators suggest little postmortem exposure, and (5) sedimentological reconstructions suggest rapid burial.

Convex-up brachiopods suggest that the Paleozoic mud bottoms they lived on were probably firmer than usually assumed and that a more complex functional interpretation of concavo-convexity is required. Hydrodynamic stability was important to many concavo-convex, plano-convex, and unequally bi-convex brachiopods. Brachiopods with these morphologies probably lived in the more stable orientation on their concave or flat valve. Productid brachiopods, although also concavo-convex, lived convex valve down and are ecologically distinct from earlier concavo-convex taxa. Productids were anchored, semi-infaunally, by spines and were more similar to Mesozoic oysters in orientation and shell function.

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Paleobiology , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , Fall 1995 , pp. 520 - 551
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