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Calcareous Tubeworms of the Phanerozoic Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2009, 58, 4, 286–296 doi: 10.3176/earth.2009.4.07 Calcareous tubeworms of the Phanerozoic Olev Vinna and Harry Mutveib a Department of Geology, University of Tartu, Vanemuise 46, 51014 Tartu, Estonia; [email protected] b Department of Palaeozoology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Box 50007, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden; [email protected] Received 8 May 2009, accepted 8 June 2009 Abstract. Morphological similarities indicate that Palaeozoic problematic tubeworms, e.g. tentaculitids, cornulitids, microconchids, trypanoporids, Anticalyptraea, and Tymbochoos, form a monophyletic group. This group may also include hederelloids. Members of this group share affinities with lophophorates and their evolution could have partly been driven by predation. The extinction of Palaeozoic tubeworms in the Middle Jurassic was possibly at least partly caused by the ecological pressure by serpulid and sabellid polychaetes. The input of Palaeozoic tubeworms to the general ocean biocalcification system may have been smaller in the Ordovician to Jurassic than that of calcareous polychaetes in the Late Triassic to Recent. There seems to have been some correlation between the aragonite–calcite seas and the skeletal mineralogy of Triassic–Recent polychaete tubeworms. Key words: Phanerozoic, Polychaeta, Lophophorata, tubeworms, problematic fossils, calcification, biomineralization. INTRODUCTION 2008b, 2008c, 2008d). Therefore most likely these fossils belong to various Palaeozoic tubicolous problematica. In modern oceans hard substrates are often heavily The Palaeozoic to Middle Jurassic spirorbiform tube- encrusted by serpulid polychaetes. Serpulids were also worms, interpreted as the polychaete Spirorbis in the important encrusting organisms in the geological past older geological literature, have more recently been (ten Hove & van den Hurk 1993). Serpulids (Family reinterpreted as microconchids (Weedon 1991, 1994; Serpulidae) dwell in calcium carbonate tubes made of Taylor & Vinn 2006; Vinn 2006a; Vinn & Taylor 2007). aragonite, calcite or a mixture of aragonite and calcite They share affinities with tentaculitids (Weedon 1991, (Bornhold & Milliman 1973; Vinn et al. 2008b). In 1994) and more generally with lophophorates (Taylor & addition to serpulids, one species of sabellid (Family Vinn 2006). The other common Palaeozoic tubeworm- Sabellidae) – Glomerula piloseta – and a few species of like calcitic problematica (tentaculitids, cornulitids, and cirratulids (Family Cirratulidae), build calcareous tubes trypanoporids) have often been affiliated with annelids, (Vinn et al. 2008a, 2008b). Serpulids are globally but are more recently transferred to lophophorates distributed, whereas calcareous sabellids and cirratulids (Weedon 1990, 1991, 1994; Vinn & Mutvei 2005; Vinn are known only from tropical and subtropical habitats 2005a, 2006b; Vinn & Isakar 2007; Vinn & Mõtus 2008). (Perkins 1991; ten Hove & van den Hurk 1993; Fischer et Some tubeworm-like Early Palaeozoic phosphatic fossils al. 2000). Serpulids were probably the first polychaete such as Sphenothallus (van Iten et al. 1992) and the tubeworms to build biomineralized tubes, with the related hyolithelminth Torellella (Vinn 2006c) have earliest certain representatives of Middle Triassic age been interpreted as cnidarians on the basis of their tube (Stiller 2000; Vinn et al. 2008a, 2008c). They were soon structure. Serpulid-like, chevron-shaped growth lamellae followed by calcareous sabellids (e.g. Glomerula) in (Weedon 1994; Vinn & Furrer 2008) have been described the Early Jurassic (Parsch 1956; Jäger 2004; Vinn et al. in the originally calcareous tubes of Cambrian anabaritids 2008a), and later by calcareous cirratulids in the (Kouchinsky & Bengtson 2002). However, a convergent Oligocene (Fischer et al. 2000). development seems to be the most likely explanation There are reports in the literature of Cambrian and because the three radial shell symmetry in anabaritids is Ordovician serpulids (e.g. Dalvé 1948; Clausen & Álvaro alien to serpulids, and there is a long stratigraphic gap to 2002), but none of these records show the presence of the first record of unequivocal serpulids in the Triassic unequivocal serpulid or calcareous polychaete skeletal (Ziegler & Michalík 1980; Stiller 2000; Senowbari- characters (Weedon 1990, 1991, 1994; ten Hove & Daryan & Link 2005; Senowbari-Daryan et al. 2007). van den Hurk 1993; Vinn & Mutvei 2005; Vinn 2005a, In modern oceans lophophorate worms are represented 2005c, 2006b; Vinn & Furrer 2008; Vinn et al. 2008a, by non-biomineralizing phoronids which dwell in mucus 286 O. Vinn and H. Mutvei: Tubeworms of the Phanerozoic tubes (Emig 1982). The ichnofossil record of inferred (Vinn et al. 2008a, 2008b, 2008d; Vinn et al. 2009). These phoronids dates back to the Devonian (as Talpina, structures probably had advanced mechanical properties Bromley 2004). However, some of the Early Palaeozoic and evolved from weaker, unoriented structures (Vinn questionable polychaete worm borings in brachiopod 2008; Vinn et al. 2008b). In contrast, the calcareous shells could have been made by phoronids (Vinn 2005b). tube structures in sabellids (e.g. Glomerula) and cirratulids Enigmatic Palaeozoic tubicolous biomineralized tube- have not changed since their appearance in the Early worms such as cornulitids (Vinn & Mutvei 2005; Vinn Jurassic and Oligocene, respectively. Sabellid polychaetes 2005a; Vinn & Mõtus 2008), microconchids (Taylor & and cirratulids have a less advanced biomineralization Vinn 2006; Vinn 2006a, Vinn & Taylor 2007), system as compared to that of serpulid polychaetes, and Tymbochoos (Vinn 2006b), Anticalyptraea (Vinn & Isakar have therefore a restricted number of tube ultrastructures 2007), and tubicolous colonial hederelloids (Taylor & (Vinn et al. 2008a, 2008b). The tubes of calcareous Wilson 2008), could represent calcifying phoronids or sabellids contain a thin, external, spherulitic layer and phoronid-related lophophorate worms. a thick, inner, spherulitic prismatic layer (Vinn et al. The aims of the paper are to discuss (1) the zoological 2008a; Fig. 1B). In cirratulid tubes only the spherulitic affinities and phylogeny of Palaeozoic problematic prismatic structure and homogeneous structure are known tubeworm faunas, (2) the biomineralization of calcareous (Vinn et al. 2008a, 2008b; Vinn 2009b; Fig. 1C). polychaete tubeworms throughout the time, (3) the The recent, improved understanding of tube structures morphological convergence and similarities in the ecology and their biomineralization has enabled us to prove of Palaeozoic problematic tubeworms and calcareous serpulid affinities of problematic tubeworms, such as polychaete tubeworms, (4) the evolutionary replacement ‘Serpula’ etalensis from the Early Jurassic of Germany of Palaeozoic problematic tubeworms by calcareous poly- (Vinn et al. 2008c). Polychaete tubes differ from Palaeo- chaete tubeworms, and (5) the comparative input of zoic problematic tubeworm tubes in the following problematic tubeworms and calcareous polychaete tube- features: (1) polychaete tubes (e.g. Serpulidae, Sabellidae, worms to global biocalcification. Cirratulidae) do not have a bulb-like, closed, embryonic chamber that is characteristic of Palaeozoic tubeworms and which resembles the protoconch of mollusks and SKELETAL STRUCTURES AND BIOMINERALI- the protoecium of bryozoans (ten Hove & van den Hurk ZATION IN POLYCHAETE TUBEWORMS, 1993; Taylor & Vinn 2006; Fig. 1D, E); (2) polychaetes AND IMPLICATIOS FOR THE AFFINITIES OF never build calcitic microlamellar shell structures, PALAEOZOIC PROBLEMATIC TUBEWORMS composed of plate-like crystallites that are oriented parallel to growth layers (Vinn & Mutvei 2005; Vinn Serpulid tubes have usually chevron-shaped growth 2005a; Taylor & Vinn 2006, Fig. 1F); (3) crystallites of lamellae (in longitudinal section), but the lamellae can lamellar polychaetes are always oriented perpendicular also be straight in some species (Weedon 1994; Vinn & to growth layers (e.g. Glomerula, cirratulids) (Vinn Furrer 2008; Vinn et al. 2008a, 2008b, 2008c). Most et al. 2008a; Vinn 2009b; Fig. 1B, C); (4) polychaetes serpulid tubes are single-layered but can also contain have no pseudopunctae and microscopic pores in the up to four, ultrastructurally different, layers (Vinn et al. tube wall (Vinn 2005c, 2007, 2008; Vinn et al. 2008a, 2008b). Serpulid tubes can have an unoriented, uniformly 2008b, 2008c, 2008d; Fig. 1F); (5) polychaetes do not oriented, or complex oriented structure. At least thirteen have an external organic tube lining similar to the distinct tube ultrastructures have hitherto been described periostracum of mollusks and the external organic cuticle (Vinn et al. 2008b, 2008d). Some particularly interesting of bryozoans (Nishi 1993; Vinn et al. 2008b). evolutionary trends in the development of complex structures in serpulid tubes, such as the lamello-fibrillar structure (Fig. 1A), occur only in genera of the Crucigera, PALAEOZOIC PROBLEMATIC TUBEWORMS Hydroides, Serpula, Ditrupa, Pseudochitinopoma, AND THEIR AFFINITIES Ficopomatus, Galeolaria, Pomatoceros, Laminatubus clade (Vinn et al. 2008b). These complex structures that Palaeozoic problematic tubeworms comprise (1) thick- challenge the traditional carbonate slurry model (Hedley walled tentaculitids (Chonioconarida Farsan, 1994), 1958; Neff 1971) of serpulid tube secretion (Vinn exclusively free-living, (Ordovician?) Silurian to 2005c; Vinn et al. 2008a, 2008b, 2008d) probably Devonian (Carboniferous?);
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