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Brachiopod outline and episodic growth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2016

Anthony E. Aldridge
Anthony E. Aldridge*
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Post Office Box 4050, St. Kilda, Dunedin, New Zealand. E-mail: tonya@deepsouth.co.nz
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Abstract

Accretionary outlines of many brachiopods are closely matched by one or more episodes of logarithmic spiral growth where each episode has a constant growth gradient. An episodic model supports the observations of abrupt change, but not that of gradual change in accretionary growth. A reliable guide to the number of growth episodes is given by the pattern of residuals after fitting a single spiral to an outline. An episodic model exposes subtle variations in growth that are not easily described by visual examination. A three-episode model clarifies a shape difference between two species of the endemic New Zealand genus Neothyris. Direct observation, along with linear measurements and their ratios, was unable to pinpoint that the well-documented dorsoventral compression in one species arises from a growth episode in the ventral valve. Logarithmic spirals about a single coiling axis are not suited for large, disjunct changes in outline for which the moving-frame methods or aperture-deposition models are applicable.

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Paleobiology , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , Fall 1999, pp. 471 - 482
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