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Mats Eriksson

Mats Eriksson

Professor

Mats Eriksson

Polychaete palaeoecology in an early Late Ordovician marine astrobleme of Sweden

Författare

  • Mats Eriksson
  • Asa M. Frisk

Summary, in English

The post-impact Dalby Limestone (Kulcruse; Upper Ordovician) of the Tvaren crater, southeastern Sweden, has been analysed with regards to polychaetes, as represented by scolecodonts. A palaeoecological succession is observed in the Tvaren-2 drill core sequence, as the vacant ecospace was successively filled by a range of benthonic, nektonic and planktonic organisms. Scolecodonts belong to the first non-planktonic groups to appear and constitute one of the most abundant fossil elements. The polychacte assemblage recorded has an overall composition characteristic of that of the Upper Ordovician of Baltoscandia. Oenonites, Vistulella, Mochtyella and the enigmatic 'Xanioprion' represent the most common genera, whereas Pteropelta, Protarabellites?, Atraktoprion and Xanioprion are considerably more rare. The assemblage differs from coeval ones particularly in its poorly represented ramphoprionid fauna and the relatively high frequency of 'Xanioprion'. A taxonomic succession and changes in abundance and relative frequency of different taxa is observed from the deepest part of the crater and upwards towards more shallow water environments. The initial post-impact assemblage does not, however, necessarily represent a benthonic colonization of the crater floor. Instead it seems to be a taphocoenosis, as indicated by its taxonomic correspondence to the rim facies fauna recovered from Dalby Limestone erratics of the Ringson island. The Tvaren succession has yielded considerably richer scolecodont assemblages than hitherto recorded from the approximately coeval Lockne crater, possibly as a consequence of shallower water settings in the former area.

Avdelning/ar

  • Berggrundsgeologi

Publiceringsår

2011

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

269-287

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Geological Magazine

Volym

148

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Cambridge University Press

Ämne

  • Geology

Nyckelord

  • palaeoecology
  • scolecodonts
  • polychaetes
  • impacts
  • Kukruse
  • Upper
  • Ordovician
  • Tvaren Bay
  • Sweden

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0016-7568