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Here we will discuss Geology and its Sequence Stratigraphy.
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Spinifex texture-typical of Komatiites:
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Here we will discuss Geology and its Sequence Stratigraphy.
Komattite
Named after the Komati River in South Africa.
first described by Morris and Richard (twins) for ultramafic units in the Barberton Greenstone belt of South Africa.
Mostly of komatiite are Archean age
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Also a few are Proterozoic and Phanerozoic.
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Mostly a volcanic rock; occasionally intrusive.
Mafic rocks were identified as extrusive because of their volcanic textures and structures, and they seem to have been accepted as a normal component of Archean volcanic successions, Abitibi in Canada.
The ultramafic rocks were interpreted as intrusive which are founded as sills and dykes, Barberton in South Africa.
Spinifex texture-typical of Komatiites:
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2. CONTENTS
Introduction
Morphology of Chitinozoa
Classification of Chitinozoa
Palaeoecology
Significance of Chitinozoa
Stratigraphic distribution
Conclusion
Reference
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3. INTRODUCTION
Microfossils are a heterogeneous bunch of fossil remains
studies as a single discipline because rock samples must
be processed in certain way to remove them and
microscope are must be used to study them.
The Chitinozoa are a group of extinct microscopic animal,
whose systematic position is not known.
They lived throughout the Paleozoic era, but the majority
become extinct at the end of Devonian Period.
The chitinozoa were first named & described by Eisenack
in 1931, who established a system for classifying
chitinozoans that is based upon morphology.
Chitinozoa are a taxon of flask or bottle shaped, hollow
organic vesicles. Walls are unusually resistant to
oxidation, thermal alteration, Tectonism, and
Recrystalisation of CaCO3 matrix.
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4. APPEARANCE
Chitinozoa range in length from around 50 to 2000 micrometers.
They appear dark to almost opaque when viewed under an optical
microscope.
External ornamentation is often preserved on the surface of the
fossils, in the form of hairs, loops or protrusions, which are some
times as large as the chamber itself.
The range and complexity of ornament increased with time,
against a backdrop of decreasing organism size.
The earliest Ordovician species were large and smooth-walled; by
the mid-Ordovician a large and expanding variety of ornament,
and of hollow appendages, was evident.
While shorter appendages are generally solid, larger protrusions
tend to be hollow, with some of the largest displaying a spongy
internal structure.
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5. MORPHOLOGY OF CHITINOZOA
The chitinozoan test consist of two main parts the chamber and the oral
tube which generally can be distinguished; these are shoulder, flanks,
basal margin and base, the terms being more or less self explanatory.
Three types of structures on the basal margin are
1)Carina, 2)Siphon, 3) Appendices.
•Carina;- a sharp outward extension
from the chamber wall resembling a
skirt or the brim of hat.
•Siphon;- a hollow open ended tube
extending from the aboral end.
•Appendices;- generally discrete
processes suspended from the basal
margin.
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6. Contd..
Oral tube;- the oral tube has two parts, the collar and the
neck. They may distinguished from each other but a change in
the wall’s profile.
The collar encircles the aperture and sometimes terminates
in a fringe of small spines.
The neck is a hollow, more or less cylindrical tube, however
few chitinozoans lack necks and collars altogether.
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7. TEST WALL
Chitinozoa range in length from around
50 to 2000 micrometer
In well preserved material the wall of the
chitinozoan test is translucent and
amber colored.
Carbonized tests recovered from altered
by metamorphism are opaque, black and
brittle.
Chitinozoan species with one, two, and
three wall layers are known although in
most species the wall is made up of 2
layers.
The outer surface of wall may be smooth
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8. THE VESICLE
The chitinozoan vesicle ranges from 30-1500 micrometer, but
most are 150-300 micrometer long.
The vesicle has a longitudinal axis of symmetry, sections
taken at right angles to this being radially symmetrical.
The wall is two layered and of a dark brown or black chitin
like substance (pseudochitin)
It encloses an empty body chamber that once housed the
organism.
The oral end which bears the aperture, is usually produced
into a neck, whilst the aboral end is broader and closed off.
The aperture is occluded by a separate operculum, whose
form and position is of taxonomic value.
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9. Desmochitina minor Eisenach. (A )single test .(B) chain
of three tests showing the apertures of two tests applied
to the bases of their orally adjacent neighbours; the
operculum of a fourth tests remains firmly attached to the
base of the test a lower left . (C). long spiral chain
consisting of numerous tests. Ordovician, Britain, (D)
cocoon (stippled).
Ancyrochitina alaticornis
Jenkins, with perforate
appendices, in lateral view.
(A) (B) (C) (D)
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10. Angochitina dicranum Jenkins with
many long distally branching
spines, in lateral view. Ordovician,
Britain
Kalochitina hirsuta with
many spines, in lateral
view. Ordovician, Britain.
Two Silurian chitinozoans, sphaerochitinids
sphaerocephala (Eisenach). (A).and
Angochitina echinata Eisenach (B) in lateral
view. The shape of the tests is
characteristically Silurian. Upper Silurian,
Gotland
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11. Three Silurian chitinozoans, Ancyrochitina desmea Eiesnack (A), Ancyrochitina
pedavis Laufeld (B). And Gotlandochitina villosa Laufeld (C). In lateral view. The
shape of these tests is characteristically Silurian. Upper Silurian, Gotland
(A) (B) (C)
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12. CLASSIFICATION OF CHITINOZOA
Classification within the chitinozoa is based largely upon the
gross morphology of the test.
The genera so defined are arbitrarily, artificial grouping, not
necessarily reflecting the natural evolutionary relationship
between different kinds of chitinozoans.
The original shape of a chitinozoan test requires careful
interpretation because most tests have to some extent, been
distorted by compression during compaction of sediment.
Other digenetic changes particularly mineral recrystalisation,
also may alter the shapes of chitinozoan tests, and the various
chemical treatments used to free chitinozoans from rock
fragments may be responsible for slight changes in both
shape and size.
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13. Contd..
Several characteristics used in defining genera are
1) The tendency for tests to occur in chain.
2) The overall shape of the test.
3) The nature of the basal margin.
4) The Internal structure.
5) Size
Group CHITINOZOAN
There are 9 genera
Genus ANCYROCHITINA e.g. Ancyrochitina alaticornis,
Genus CLATHROCHITINA e.g.- conochitina elegana
Genus CONOCHITINA e.g. conochitina elegana
Genus CYATHOCHITINA e.g. cyathochitina companalaeformis
Genus DESMOCHITINA e.g. desmochitina minor
Genus LAGENOCHITINA e.g. lagenochitina ovoidea
Genus SIPHONOCHITINA e.g. siphonochitina formosa
Genus KALOCHITINA e.g. kalochitina hirsute
Genus HERCOCHITINA e.g hercochitina downiei
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14. PALAEOECOLOGY
The fossil restriction to marine sediments can be taken as
sound evidence that the organisms dwelt in the Paleozoic seas
- which presents three main modes of life
Infaunal — living within the sediment - the "burrowers“
Benthic — dwelling upon the sea floor, perhaps anchored
in place - the "sitters“
Pelagic — free-floating in the water column - the "drifters“
An infaunal mode of life can be quickly ruled out, as the fossils
are sometimes found in alignment with the depositing
current; as nothing attached them to the bottom, they must
have fallen from the water column
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15. SIGNIFICANCE OF CHITINOZOA
In the absence of other fossils, chitinozoan can be useful for local
stratigraphic correlations.
Gradual evolutionary changes are detectable in some assemblages
and may prove useful for wider correlation but there has been
little use of international zonal schemes as yet.
Chitinozoa have proven incredibly useful as a stratigraphic
markers in biostratigraphy during the Ordovician, Silurian and
Devonian periods.
They are also widely distributed and appear in a variety of marine
depositional settings, making correlation easier; better still, they
can often be recognized in even quite strongly metamorphosed
rocks.
Occurrence chitinozoan in less metamorphosed sedimentary rocks
may allow an approximation of the depositional environment .
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16. DISTRIBUTION AND ECOLOGY OF
CHITINOZOANS
Chitinozoa are known only from marine sediments.
They are common in rocks deposited under well aerated,
shallow-water conditions, especially in shales and siltstone,
but they are also found in limestone, dolomites, graptolitic
shales, slates and cherts.
The wide facies tolerance and distribution tends to suggest
that chitinozoa were either planktonic or attached to floating
objects for at least part of their life cycle.
Laufeld (1974) considered they were zooplanktonic with
evidence for blooms in late autumn.
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17. GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF CHITINOZOA
The oldest chitinozoans will be the Demochitina like sacs from
the upper Precambrian Chuar group of Arizona.
This group is unknown in Cambrian rock, but appears again in
a major radiation of Ordovician Age.
During Ordovician age morphologically simple vesicle, the
latter stock gradually dwindling through the Silurian and
dying out at the end of it.
The more complex tanuchitinids also appeared in the
tremadocian, whilst the sphaerochitinids appeared in the late
Ordovician and characterized the Silurian and early Devonian
species.
The age of chitinozoa ranging from Ordovician to Permian.
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18. CONCLUSION
Chitinozoans are of flask-shaped, organic walled marine
microfossils of unknown origin.
Shells are translucent and amber in colour.
The chitinozoans evolved rapidly during the Ordovician,
Silurian, Devonian.
Chitinozoans are useful for biostratigraphic zonation,
dating and correlation of rocks of Lower Paleozoic.
They lived throughout the Paleozoic era, but the majority
become extinct at the end of Devonian Period.
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