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Polyphyly, Paraphyly, Provinciality, and the Promise Of Palaeontologia Electronica http://palaeo-electronica.org Polyphyly, paraphyly, provinciality, and the promise of intercontinental correlation: Charles Repenning’s contributions to the study of arvicoline rodent evolution and biochronology Christopher J. Bell and Christopher N. Jass “The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually covert, even subconscious.” George Gaylord Simpson, 1953 ABSTRACT We review the history of Charles A. Repenning’s contributions to the study of arvi- coline rodents, with emphasis on his philosophical approach to the study of fossils, their taxonomic affinities, biostratigraphic distribution, and biochronologic significance. Rep viewed these issues in an explicitly evolutionary context under which gradational and anagenetic change was accepted as the dominant mode of evolution. He recog- nized a polyphyletic origin of five independent arvicoline lineages, and viewed para- phyletic higher taxa within those lineages as some of the best evidence of evolution. That perspective, combined with his view that the rock record preserved an adequate material history of population-level evolution in arvicolines, led him to adopt taxonomic practices that can be confusing and cumbersome to non-specialists. He used fossils of arvicolines as tools to develop an intercontinental correlation scheme extending across North America, northern Asia, and Europe. A core component of his correlation scheme was the hypothesis of a bi-directionally balanced history of dispersal events across the Arctic Ocean borderland that introduced comparable arvicoline taxa into Europe and North America from source areas in Asia. Within North America, his bio- chronology was structured around a concept of immigrant taxa, although definitive establishment of immigrant status often was an elusive goal. He worked diligently to accommodate new data into his biochronologic framework, and was actively engaged with major conceptual issues at the time of his murder. Rep sought to integrate diverse data sets and to explain evolutionary events in the context of fine-scale geologic and climatic history. Those efforts led to his exploration and eventual adoption of indepen- dent biochronologies for different faunal regions. The establishment of diachronous boundaries of land mammal ages within North America remains one of his most con- troversial and thought-provoking proposals. PE Article Number: 14.3.18A Copyright: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology November 2011 Submission: 15 June 2007. Acceptance: 5 October 2011 Bell, Christopher J., and Jass, Christopher N. 2011. Polyphyly, paraphyly, provinciality, and the promise of intercontinental correlation: Charles Repenning’s contributions to the study of arvicoline rodent evolution and biochronology. Palaeontologia Electronica Vol. 14, Issue 3; 18A:15p; palaeo-electronica.org/2011_3/28_bell/index.html BELL AND JASS: REPENNING'S CONTRIBUTION TO ARVICOLINES Christopher J. Bell, Department of Geological Sciences, 1 University Station C-1100, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA. [email protected] Christopher N. Jass, Royal Alberta Museum, 12845 – 102 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, T5N0M6, Canada. [email protected] Key Words: Arvicolinae; faunal provinces; biostratigraphy; biochronology; paraphyletic INTRODUCTION July, 1993, p. 2). Our recent perusal of the corre- spondence files, combined with a review of his As the many contributions to this volume published works on arvicolines, provides an unpar- reflect, Charles A. Repenning (‘Rep’) is recognized alleled opportunity to explore his thoughts about, widely as having made significant contributions in and approaches to, the evolutionary history, bio- disparate disciplines of the geosciences. From his stratigraphy, and biogeography of extant and early career as a geologist studying and mapping extinct arvicolines. The methodological and philo- extensive areas of the western United States, to his sophical approaches under which he considered ‘second’ career addressing the evolutionary history his work had enormous impacts on his results and of pinniped mammals, and his tangential studies of the interpretations he drew from those results. We other mammal groups (e.g., shrews), Rep left a attempt to provide a broader perspective on Rep’s published record of data, thoughts, ideas, and sug- work on arvicolines by summarizing the history and gestions that will stimulate geologists and paleon- development of his ideas on arvicoline biochronol- tologists for many decades. ogy and elucidating some of the insights, assump- Most of our interactions with Rep centered on tions, and underlying thought processes that his third major research focus, the evolutionary his- influenced much of his research. tory and biochronology of arvicoline rodents (voles, lemmings, muskrats, and their extinct kin). His con- HISTORICAL OVERVIEW tributions in this area were substantial and extend well beyond mere collection and identification of The last 30 years of Rep’s career were spent specimens and descriptions of new taxa. Rep’s in large part in pursuit of a deeper understanding of approach to his data (and those of other workers) the evolutionary history, classification, biostrati- often was controversial, and sometimes confronta- graphic distribution, and biochronologic signifi- tional. He was passionate about his work, and cance of arvicoline rodents. The evolutionary could be obstinate, cantankerous, and caustic in history of arvicolines extends back to at least the interactions with colleagues and students, but his early Pliocene, and is revealed through a rich and ideas and criticisms were almost universally stimu- geographically widespread Holarctic fossil record lating. He was a prolific and inveterate correspon- and an impressive array of extant taxa, including at dent. One of us (CJB) maintained a running postal least 151 species distributed within 28 genera (and subsequently, email) correspondence with (Musser and Carleton 2005). The relatively rapid Rep from 1990 through 2004, ending shortly before rate of evolutionary change within arvicolines, com- his murder. The correspondence encompasses bined with their reproductive and dispersal capabil- hundreds of pages of material and is preserved ities, makes them one of the more important faunal (along with additional Repenning correspondence) groups for biostratigraphic correlation of Pliocene in the Repenning Correspondence Archives of the and Pleistocene deposits in the Holarctic (Repen- Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory at The Univer- ning 1987; Repenning et al. 1990; Bell 2000; Bell sity of Texas at Austin. Rep used his correspon- et al. 2004b). dence to develop ideas, to clarify thoughts, and to Rep recognized the possible significance of frame arguments. Much of what he published on arvicolines for biostratigraphic correlation in the arvicolines in the last decade of his life is revealed early 1960s, but his development of a fully mature in inchoate form in his letters, and he openly admit- research program did not occur until the 1970s. His ted that this was his practice. In 1993 he wrote first research study of arvicolines was conducted in “Don’t knock yourself out (or your car) to get here, pursuit of paleoenvironmental and habitat recon- we can always write letters. Gives me something to structions of a late Pleistocene deposit in Alaska, publish” (Repenning, letter to Christopher Bell, 22 but in that context arvicolines were simply listed as 2 PALAEO-ELECTRONICA.ORG part of a larger faunal assemblage (Repenning et ity of high-resolution intercontinental correlation al. 1964). Within two years, he established the through arvicoline rodents. However, he postponed foundations of late Cenozoic intercontinental corre- publication of his ideas until after Hibbard’s death lations between North America and Eurasia in 1973, at least in part out of respect for Hibbard’s (Repenning 1966), a subject that would become accomplishments and Rep’s concern that his new one of the cornerstones of his research program in ideas were insufficiently well developed to contra- the later decades of his life. dict Hibbard’s established reputation and authority His first paper that was centered entirely on (Repenning, email letter to Christopher Bell, 16 arvicolines was an anatomical study of mandibular October, 1998, p. 1). myology and osteology (Repenning 1968) that was Repenning’s first significant publication on prepared initially as a term paper for a comparative arvicolines that post-dates Hibbard’s death was anatomy course at the University of California at prepared in collaboration with Oldřich Fejfar. They Berkeley. That, his first immersion into arvicoline described the framework for an intercontinental anatomy, was simultaneously his first major correlation scheme based exclusively on arvico- assessment of the evolutionary lineages within the lines (Repenning and Fejfar 1977), and empha- group. Arvicoline rodents soon assumed a promi- sized the hypothesis that the North American fauna nent role in Rep’s attempts to establish interconti- achieved diversification not through endemic evo- nental correlations between North America, Asia, lution, but through repeated pulses of immigration and Europe. Initially, he used arvicolines in con- across the Bering Land Bridge. They openly junction with other mammalian taxa (Repenning acknowledged that their proposals would be con- 1967), but they subsequently emerged
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