Role and lifestyle of calcified cyanobacteria (Stanieria) in Permian-Triassic boundary microbialites

被引:22
作者
Wu, Ya-Sheng [1 ]
Yu, Gong-Liang [2 ]
Jiang, Hong-Xia [1 ]
Liu, Li-Jing [1 ]
Zhao, Rui [1 ]
机构
[1] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geol & Geophys, Key Lab Petr Resource Res, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China
[2] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Hydrobiol, Wuhan 430071, Peoples R China
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
Microbialites; Permian-Triassic boundary; Cyanobacteria; Stanieria; Paleoecology; Hitch-hiking lifestyle; SOUTH CHINA; MASS EXTINCTION; MARINE; CALCIFICATION; SECTION; CRISIS; ANOXIA; GROWTH;
D O I
10.1016/j.palaeo.2015.11.019
中图分类号
P9 [自然地理学];
学科分类号
0705 ; 070501 ;
摘要
Calcified coccoid fossils in the Permian-Triassic boundary microbialites were widely considered to represent the remains of the organisms that formed the microbialites. However, this role has been recently attributed to the fossil casts of Microcystis cyanobacterial colonies, leaving the ecological role of the coccoid fossils, as well as their affinities, uncertain. Here we propose that these coccoid fossils bear morphological similarity and are related to the extant epiphytic cyanobacterium Stanieria, and that they lived in surface waters by attaching themselves to bloom-forming phytoplankton, in a hitch-hiking lifestyle. Calcification of the envelopes of these interpreted Stanieria cells produced the small thin-walled spherical calcareous coccoid fossils. Different from ordinary pseudoplanktons, Stanieria cells cannot attach themselves to sparse plankton, but only to densely packed phytoplanktons in bloom. The dependence of these calcified Stanieria fossils on this lifestyle makes them possible indicators of ancient planktonic blooms. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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页数:9
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