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Taxonomic survivorship and morphologic complexity in Paleozoic bryozoan genera

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2016

Robert L. Anstey
Robert L. Anstey*
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824
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Abstract

The shape of bryozoan taxonomic survivorship curves is strongly influenced both by grade of morphologic complexity and by mass extinction. Paleozoic bryozoan genera that are morphologically simple have linear taxonomic survivorship; morphologically intermediate taxa have slightly concave survivorship, and complex forms have very concave survivorship. Increasing morphologic complexity, and by inference, increasing specialization of adaptation appear to accompany a systematic departure from a stochastically constant extinction rate. However, the extinctions of the complex taxa are entirely concentrated during three mass extinction events, whereas the extinctions of the simple taxa are more uniformly distributed throughout the Paleozoic; the extinction pattern of the morphologically intermediate taxa is intermediate to those of the simple and complex groups. Exclusion of the genera affected by mass extinction increases the convexity of the survivorship curves, and reverses the apparent correlation of extinction rate with morphologic complexity. The macroevolutionary pattern of the complex genera resembles an r-strategy, whereas that of the simple taxa resembles a K-strategy.

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Paleobiology , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , Fall 1978 , pp. 407 - 418
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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