α-and β-diversity Change of Late Ordovician Hirnantia Fauna of Changning,Sichuan,Southwest China

作     者：ZHAN Renbin LIU Jianbo LIANG Yan LI Guipeng 

作者机构：State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology the Chinese Academy of Sciences Nanjing 210008 China School of Earth and Space Sciences Peking University Beijing 100871 China 

出 版 物：《Acta Geologica Sinica(English Edition)》 (地质学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2011年第85卷第2期

页      面：330-339页

核心收录：

学科分类：081803[工学-地质工程] 090704[农学-森林经理学] 0907[农学-林学] 08[工学] 0818[工学-地质资源与地质工程] 09[农学] 

基　　金：supported by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZCX2-YW-Q05-01) the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2006FY120300-5) the National Natural Science Foundation of China (40825006, 40972020), and the State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy of NIGPAS 

主　　题：Brachiopods Kuanyinchiao Formation Ordovician-Silurian transition Shuanghe of Changning 

摘      要：A continuous Ordovician-Silurian boundary section from the upper Wufeng Formation through the Kuanyinchiao Formation to the lower Lungmachi Formation has been carefully measured and collected at Shuanghe of Changning, southern Sichuan Province. For the first time, the temporal changes of α- and β-diversities of the Hirnantia fauna have been discussed in great detail. The general trend of brachiopod diversity change, increasing upward, is consistent with the regional trend of the Yangtze Platform, which had been controlled by both intrinsic and extrinsic factors. However, the sudden drop of diversity for a short period in the upper Kuanyinchiao Formation might have been controlled by environmental factors rather than normal faunal turnover. Synecological analysis using numerical methods recognizes two brachiopod-dominated associations of the Hirnantia fauna, the Dalmanella-Kinnella Association and the Mirorthis Association, both living in an offshore, deeper water environment corresponding to BA3-upper BA4, particularly lower BA3.