Placoderm Assemblage from the Tetrapod-Bearing Locality of Strud (Belgium, Upper Famennian) Provides Evidence for a Fish Nursery

International audience ; The placoderm fauna of the upper Famennian tetrapod-bearing locality of Strud, Belgium, includes the antiarch Grossilepis rikiki, the arthrodire groenlandaspidid Turrisaspis struden-sis and the phyllolepidid Phyllolepis undulata. Based on morphological and morphometric evidence, the placoderm specimens from Strud are predominantly recognised as immature specimens and this locality as representing a placoderm nursery. The Strud depositional environment corresponds to a channel in an alluvial plain, and the presence of a nursery in such environment could have provided nu... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Olive, Sébastien
Clément, Gaël
Daeschler, Edward B.
Dupret, Vincent
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
Verlag/Hrsg.: HAL CCSD
Schlagwörter: [SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology
Sprache: Englisch
Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26982618
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Link(s) : https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/hal-01368219

International audience ; The placoderm fauna of the upper Famennian tetrapod-bearing locality of Strud, Belgium, includes the antiarch Grossilepis rikiki, the arthrodire groenlandaspidid Turrisaspis struden-sis and the phyllolepidid Phyllolepis undulata. Based on morphological and morphometric evidence, the placoderm specimens from Strud are predominantly recognised as immature specimens and this locality as representing a placoderm nursery. The Strud depositional environment corresponds to a channel in an alluvial plain, and the presence of a nursery in such environment could have provided nutrients and protection to the placoderm offspring. This represents one of the earliest pieces of evidence for this sort of habitat partitioning in vertebrate history, with adults living more distantly from the nursery and using the nursery only to spawn or give live birth.