Tiktaalik - associated flora and fauna

[SpoonMan]

Hi All,

This is my first post in the forums, but probably won't be my last...

I'm trying to write a kids book on evolution and want to draw some nice pictures to go with the rhymes (it's aimed at younger kids). However for the page I have written about Tiktaalik roseae I would like to do a picture of it resting on the bank of a river, with some of the likely associated flora and fauna that lived in the margins of freshwater at the time hanging out in the background/foreground (probably foreground as I suspect they were all fairly small).

Unfortunately there don't seem to be a lot of good fossils from the Famennian in Canada at this time and so I was wondering if anyone would be able to help me identify some likely candidates.

There is a lot of information on the tetrapods that lived with it but it seems like nobody has covered the land living/marginal species that may have crossed paths with it. There is also some info about things like e.g. Archaeopteris, Gigantocharinus, Microdecemplex, etc. but none of them seem to occur in the same location/stratigraphy.

Hopefully the way I have written this doesn't make me sound completely clueless (although chances are good), as it's been a while since I've dabbled in palaeontology, but if anyone wants further clarification then let me know.

Thanks in advance, this is a great website, by the way!

Cheers

SpoonMan

[doushantuo]

i take it you've seen the Csotonyi reconstruction?

http://orbi.ulg.be/bitstream/2268/156563/1/Streel%20et%20al%202000%20ESR%20Famennian.pdf

might be of use

Edited August 19, 2016 by doushantuo

[SpoonMan]

i take it you've seen the Csotonyi reconstruction?

http://orbi.ulg.be/bitstream/2268/156563/1/Streel%20et%20al%202000%20ESR%20Famennian.pdf

might be of use

Thanks Doushantuo,

I'll set some time aside to have a look at that. It seems like it might be a good starting point.

Cheers

SpoonMan

[SpoonMan]

I did find this one which is about a location in Belgium, which I guess was relatively close to Canada in the Devonian!

http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:367103/UQ367103_OA.pdf

[doushantuo]

most of those authors have RGate pages,BTW .

Geologica Belgica(free access) will contain articles on the Famennian,it being a Belgian stratotype,of course..

some keywords:Hangenberg,Dasberg,Kellwasser,Strunian,Culm(or Kulm)/,lydites,pthanites

Edited August 19, 2016 by doushantuo

[Fruitbat]

Tiktaalik roseae was recovered from the Fram Formation on Ellesmere Island Nunavut, Canada. The Fram Formation is Middle to Upper Devonian and apparently consists of sediments laid down by a braided stream system. Associated fauna includes Asterolepis (an antiarch) and a number of varieties of lobe-finned fish .

You might find these articles interesting:

Bliek, A.R.M., et al. (2007). The biostratigraphical and palaeogeographical framework of the earliest diversification of tetrapods (Late Devonian). Geological Society London Special Publications, 278(1).

Clack, J.A. (2009). The Fish-Tetrapod Transition: New Fossils and Interpretations. Evo.Edu. Outreach, 2.

Daeschler, E.B., N. Shubin and F.A. Jenkins (2006). A Devonian tetrapod-like fish and the evolution of the tetrapod body plan. Nature, Vol.440/6.

Shipman, P. (2006). Missing Links and Found Links. American Scientist.

-Joe

[SpoonMan]

You lot are brilliant. Thank you all.