caa a22 4500 445299916 CHVBK 20180317142554.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20101201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11430-010-4071-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11430-010-4071-3 Biodiversification of Late Ordovician Hirnantia fauna on the Upper Yangtze Platform, South China [Elektronische Daten] [RenBin Zhan, JianBo Liu, Ian Percival, JiSuo Jin, GuiPeng Li] The Hirnantia Fauna is a globally-represented, cool water brachiopod fauna that originated and flourished in shallow marine environments at intermediate to low latitudes after the first episode of the end-Ordovician mass extinction. It was well-developed, widely distributed, long in stratigraphical range, and complex in palaeoecological differentiation on the Upper Yangtze Platform of the South China paleoplate, where it has been extensively studied. Qualitative and quantitative analyses show that the FAD of the Hirnantia Fauna in South China becomes stratigraphically higher from nearshore to offshore localities on the Yangtze Platform, while the range of the fauna becomes shorter whereas the taxonomic diversity increases. Over its stratigraphical range the diversity of the Hirnantia Fauna at nearshore localities consistently decreases, but trends in the opposite direction at offshore, deeper water localities. The fauna was represented by different communities, subcommunities or associations with changing environmental factors (such as water depth and substrate) at different localities or horizons. Science China Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2010 Hirnantia Fauna nationallicence biodiversification nationallicence Ordovician nationallicence Hirnantian nationallicence Upper Yangtze Platform nationallicence South China nationallicence Zhan RenBin State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 210008, Nanjing, China aut Liu JianBo State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 210008, Nanjing, China aut Percival Ian NSW Department of Primary Industries, Geological Survey of New South Wales, 947-953 Londonderry Road, 2753, Londonderry, NSW, Australia aut Jin JiSuo Department of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario, N6A 5B7, London, ON, Canada aut Li GuiPeng State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 210008, Nanjing, China aut Science China Earth Sciences SP Science China Press 53/12(2010-12-01), 1800-1810 1674-7313 53:12<1800 2010 53 11430 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-010-4071-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-010-4071-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Zhan RenBin State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 210008, Nanjing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Liu JianBo State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 210008, Nanjing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Percival Ian NSW Department of Primary Industries, Geological Survey of New South Wales, 947-953 Londonderry Road, 2753, Londonderry, NSW, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jin JiSuo Department of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario, N6A 5B7, London, ON, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Li GuiPeng State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 210008, Nanjing, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Science China Earth Sciences SP Science China Press 53/12(2010-12-01), 1800-1810 1674-7313 53:12<1800 2010 53 11430 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer