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Krausedissertation1.Pdf (3.809Mb) Ecological, Evolutionary, and Taphonomic Comparisons of Brachiopods and Bivalves at Multiple Spatial and Temporal Scales Richard Alan Krause Jr. Dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy In Department of Geosciences Michał Kowalewski (Chair) Arnold I. Miller J. Fred Read Stephen E. Scheckler Shuhai Xiao 14 April 2006 Blacksburg, Virginia Keywords: bivalve, brachiopod, time averaging, morphometrics; size Ecological, Evolutionary, and Taphonomic Comparisons of Brachiopods and Bivalves at Multiple Spatial and Temporal Scales Richard A. Krause Jr. Abstract The fossil record is the primary source of information on the history of life. As such, it is important to understand the limitations of this record. One critical area in which there is still much work to be done is in understanding how the fossil record, and our interpretation of it, may be biased. Herein, the fidelity between the life and death assemblage of an extant brachiopod with respect to morphological variability is studied using geometric morphometrics. The results from several analyses confirm a high degree of morphological variability with little change in mean shape between the living and sub-fossil assemblage. Additionally, there is no evidence of distinct morphogroups in either assemblage. These trends persist at all depths and size classes indicating that this species could be recognized as a single, rather than multiple, species if only fossil data were available. The second chapter involves the recognition and quantification of a worker bias in monographs of brachiopods and bivalves. Most specimens studied came from the 65th to 69th percentile of their species’ bulk-collected size-frequency distribution. This indicates a significant bias toward monograph specimens that are larger than the mean size of the bulk sample. When compared at the species level, this bias was found to be highly consistent among the 86 species included in the study. Thus, size measurements of monographed specimens reliably and consistently record a similar size class for any given species, and this bias is easily corrected during meta-analyses. Chapter three focuses on bivalves and brachiopods from a modern tropical shelf and quantifies the magnitude of time averaging (temporal mixing) for these two different organisms. This is accomplished by dating a suite of shells from each site using amino acid racemization calibrated with several radiocarbon dates. By studying the age distributions for each species it is determined that, despite some site to site differences, both bivalve and brachiopod species exhibit a similar time averaging magnitude when collected from the same region or depositional system. This indicates that fossil assemblages of these species may have very similar resolution. ii TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS........................................................................................................................................ III LIST OF FIGURES.................................................................................................................................................. V LIST OF TABLES .................................................................................................................................................. VI INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW OF THE RESEARCH.............................................................................. VII ATTRIBUTION...................................................................................................................................................... XI ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS................................................................................................................................... XII CHAPTER ONE: AN ASSESSMENT OF MORPHOLOGICAL FIDELITY IN THE SUB-FOSSIL RECORD OF A TEREBRATULIDE BRACHIOPOD............................................................................................1 ABSTRACT .............................................................................................................................................................2 INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................................3 Previous Work......................................................................................................................................................4 MATERIAL AND METHODS ................................................................................................................................6 Sample Collection ................................................................................................................................................6 Data Collection....................................................................................................................................................8 Analytical Methods ..............................................................................................................................................9 Procrustes Analysis........................................................................................................................................................... 9 Comparison of fitting techniques .................................................................................................................................... 10 Operator Error Estimation............................................................................................................................................... 10 Principal Components Analysis ...................................................................................................................................... 11 Canonical Variates Analysis ........................................................................................................................................... 11 Thin-Plate Spline Analysis.............................................................................................................................................. 14 Variability Metrics.......................................................................................................................................................... 15 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION .............................................................................................................................20 Mean Shape vs. Mean Variability ......................................................................................................................20 Live-Dead Comparisons ....................................................................................................................................20 Results............................................................................................................................................................................. 20 Discussion....................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Depth Comparisons............................................................................................................................................24 Results............................................................................................................................................................................. 24 Discussion....................................................................................................................................................................... 27 Size Comparisons...............................................................................................................................................27 Results............................................................................................................................................................................. 27 Discussion....................................................................................................................................................................... 30 CONCLUSIONS ....................................................................................................................................................32 CHAPTER TWO: BODY SIZE ESTIMATES FROM THE LITERATURE: UTILITY AND POTENTIAL FOR MACROEVOLUTIONARY STUDIES .........................................................................................................33 ABSTRACT ...........................................................................................................................................................34 INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................................................35 TYPES OF PHOTOGRAPHIC BIAS.....................................................................................................................37 Apparent Versus Actual Size ..............................................................................................................................37 Sampling Bias ....................................................................................................................................................37 METHODS.............................................................................................................................................................39
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