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Early radiation of echinoderms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2017

James Sprinkle  and
Thomas E. Guensburg
James Sprinkle
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
Thomas E. Guensburg
Affiliation:
Physical Science Division, Rock Valley College, Rockford, Illinois 61114, USA
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Abstract

Echinoderms underwent a major two-part radiation that produced all of the major groups found in the fossil record between the Early Cambrian and the Middle Ordovician. A small initial radiation in the Early and Middle Cambrian produced about nine classes containing low-diversity members of the Cambrian Evolutionary Fauna. These were characterized by primitive morphology, simple ambulacral feeding structures, and the early development of a multiplated stalk or stem for attachment to skeletal fragments on a soft substrate. Several groups became extinct at the end of the Middle Cambrian, leaving the Late Cambrian as a gap of very low diversity in the fossil record of echinoderms with only four classes preserved and very few occurrences of complete specimens, mostly associated with early hardgrounds. The survivors from this interval re-expanded in the Early Ordovician and were joined by many newly evolved groups to produce a much larger radiation of more advanced, diverse, and successful echinoderms representing the Paleozoic Evolutionary Fauna on both hard and soft substrates. At least 17 classes were present by the Middle Ordovician, the all-time high point for echinoderm class diversity, and nearly all of the major ways-of-life (except for deep infaunal burrowing) had been developed. With the rise to dominance of crinoids, many less successful or archaic groups did not survive the Middle Ordovician, and echinoderm class diversity dropped further because of the mass extinction at the end of the Ordovician. This weeding-out process of other less-successful echinoderm groups continued throughout the rest of the Paleozoic, and only five classes of echinoderms have survived to the Recent from this early Paleozoic radiation.

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The Paleontological Society Papers , Volume 3: Geobiology of Echinoderms , October 1997 , pp. 205 - 224
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