Paleobiology, 2019, pp. 1–20
DOI: 10.1017/pab.2019.37
Phylogenetic Paleoecology Special Issue
Hierarchical controls on extinction selectivity across the
diplobathrid crinoid phylogeny
Selina R. Cole
Abstract.—Identifying correlates of extinction risk is important for understanding the underlying mechanisms driving differential rates of extinction and variability in the temporal durations of taxa. Increasingly,
it is recognized that the effects of multiple, potentially interacting variables and phylogenetic relationships
should be incorporated when studying extinction selectivity to account for covariation of traits and shared
evolutionary history. Here, I explore a variety of biological and ecological controls on genus longevity in
the global fossil record of diplobathrid crinoids by analyzing the combined effects of species richness,
habitat preference, body size, filtration fan density, and food size selectivity. I employ a suite of taxic
and phylogenetic approaches to (1) quantitatively compare and rank the relative effects of multiple factors
on taxonomic longevity and (2) determine how phylogenetic comparative approaches alter interpretations
of extinction selectivity.
I find controls on diplobathrid genus duration are hierarchically structured, where species richness is
the primary predictor of duration, habitat is the secondary predictor, and combinations of ecological and
biological traits are tertiary controls. Ecology plays an important but complex role in the generation of crinoid macroevolutionary patterns. Notably, tolerance of environmental heterogeneity promotes increased
genus duration across diplobathrid crinoids, and the effects of traits related to feeding ecology vary
depending on habitat lithology. Finally, I find accounting for phylogeny does not consistently decrease
the significance of correlations between traits and genus duration, as is commonly expected. Instead,
the strength of relationships between traits and duration may increase, decrease, or remain statistically
similar, and both the magnitude and direction of these shifts are generally unpredictable. However, traits
with strong correlations and/or moderately large effect sizes (Cohen’s f 2 > 0.15) under taxic approaches tend
to remain qualitatively unchanged under phylogenetic approaches.
Selina R. Cole. Division of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street,
New York, New York 10024, U.S.A.; and Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History,
Smithsonian Institution, Post Office Box 37012, MRC 121, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012, U.S.A.
E-mail: scole@amnh.org.
Accepted: 28 September 2019
Data available from the Dryad Digital Repository: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.533j6c3
Introduction
Fundamental to the fields of paleontology,
evolutionary biology, and conservation biology is the phenomenon of extinction. Differential rates of extinction result in heterogeneity in
the longevity of taxa across clades and through
time (McKinney 1997; Jablonski 2008a). The
fossil record is an indispensable source of
information on how past species responded to
extinction pressures, with implications for
understanding the extinction risk faced by species today (Harnik et al. 2012). It provides a
detailed framework for exploring whether
certain environmental, biological, and/or
ecological traits can be identified as universal
predictors of extinction risk, or whether the
role of certain traits varies across clades and
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through time. A number of factors have been
linked to extinction selectivity in the fossil record
across many clades, such as geographic range
size (e.g., Payne and Finnegan 2007; Powell
2007; Jablonski 2008a; Foote et al. 2008; Harnik
et al. 2014) and niche breadth (Kammer et al.
1997, 1998; Liow 2007; Heim and Peters 2011;
Nurnberg and Aberhan 2013; Smits 2015), as
well as factors that are more taxon specific,
such as larval dispersal in mollusks (Hansen
1978; Gilli and Martinell 1994; Jablonski and
Hunt 2006). Other factors have variable effects
in different taxonomic groups, such as body
size (Jablonski 1996; Harnik 2011; Tomiya
2013) and morphologic variation/complexity
(Villier and Korn 2004; Liow 2004, 2006;
Hopkins 2011; Kolbe et al. 2011). Many of
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these traits have also been implicated in
increased extinction risk of modern species (Purvis et al. 2000; Thomas et al. 2004).
When investigating extinction selectivity,
there are two notable sources of potential
error. First, many biological traits may covary
and/or be governed by the same underlying
mechanisms. Failing to account for potential
relationships among variables may result in
spurious interpretations of the complex, interacting processes driving extinction selectivity
(Wootton 1994; Jablonski 2005). A number of
studies have attempted to tease apart the effects
of interacting factors using multivariate linear
regression (e.g., Liow 2007; Crampton et al.
2010; Harnik 2011; Hopkins 2011; Harnik
et al. 2014), but the relative contribution of multiple variables on taxonomic duration has
rarely been quantified. Second, phylogenetic
effects can play a role in extinction selectivity
and/or confound the apparent signal of other
variables (Green et al. 2011; Smith and Roy
2006; Purvis 2008; Fritz and Purvis 2010; Soul
and Friedman 2017; Congreve et al. 2018).
Taxic approaches cannot fully account for
shared evolutionary history among closely
related taxa, and most incorrectly treat taxa as
phylogenetically independent units. As a
result, the value of incorporating explicit phylogenetic hypotheses into studies of extinction
selectivity using comparative methods has
been recognized in recent years (e.g., Friedman
2009; Hopkins 2011; Harnik et al. 2014; Puttick
et al. 2017; Field et al. 2018).
Here, I use the fossil record of diplobathrid
crinoids to (1) assess the effects of multiple factors on extinction selectivity, both with and
without phylogenetic nonindependence taken
into account, and (2) determine the relative
contribution of biological and ecological traits
to diplobathrid genus duration. Diplobathrids
are a model group for this study, because they
have an extensive stratigraphic range (Late
Ordovician [Floian] to Upper Mississippian
[Serpukhovian]), a well-sampled fossil record
(Cole 2017), and a well-resolved phylogeny
that is nearly comprehensive at the genus
level, including 100 genera (Cole 2018). In addition, many aspects of crinoid ecology can be
extracted from skeletal features that readily
preserve in fossil specimens, facilitating
investigation of the role ecology played during
their evolutionary history (Cole et al. 2019).
Traits investigated were body size, species richness, niche breadth, density of the filtration fan,
and food size selectivity. To identify significant
correlations between these traits and the duration of diplobathrid genera in the fossil record,
I employed multiple linear regression, which
accounts for covariation between variables
without phylogenetic context, and phylogenetic generalized least squares, which takes
phylogenetic relationships of the study taxa
into account. I calculated phylogenetic signal
to explore the degree to which characters are
phylogenetically structured, and calculated
Cohen’s f 2, a measure of effect size, to determine the relative contribution of variables
to diplobathrid duration and to compare the
influence of variables on duration among
groups. Using these approaches, the following
key questions were addressed concerning
extinction selectivity and genus duration in
diplobathrid crinoids: (1) What are the significant predictors of extinction? (2) What are the
relative contributions of those predictors?
(3) Do ecological traits, such as habitat preference and ecomorphologic variation, play a significant role in genus longevity? (4) How does
incorporating phylogenetic structure affect
interpretations of extinction selectivity?
Trait Selection and Crinoid Ecology
The first three traits investigated in this study—body size, species richness, and habitat preference/niche breadth—were chosen because
they have been identified as notable correlates
of extinction from previous studies. As a result,
one goal of this study was to determine
whether the correlations of these traits with
extinction would hold true for diplobathrid crinoids. For example, significant correlations
between body size and extinction risk have
been documented for many vertebrate groups
(Gaston and Blackburn 1997; Friedman 2009;
Tomiya 2013; Lyons et al. 2016), but body size
is not consistently correlated with extinction
risk in invertebrates (e.g., Lockwood 2005; Harnik 2011). Likewise, it has been recognized that
species richness corresponds to the persistence
of higher taxa (Jablonski 1991; McKinney 1997),
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but few studies have tested this correlation
explicitly. Niche breadth has also been investigated for multiple vertebrate and invertebrate
groups; taxa with greater niche breadth
(i.e., generalist taxa) generally have been
found to have increased taxonomic longevity
(Baumiller 1993; Liow 2007; Nurnburg and
Aberhan 2013; but see Colles et al. [2009] for a
more detailed review). In this study, niche
breadth is measured as a function of habitat
preference, which is thought to represent a
major environmental control on the distribution of different crinoid groups (Kammer
et al. 1997, 1998).
The other two traits investigated—filtration
fan density and food size selectivity—were
included because they reflect ecologically significant traits by which crinoids partition
niches (Ausich 1980; Cole et al. 2019), and
thus might be expected to have macroevolutionary significance over the history of Diplobathrida. Crinoids are epifaunally tiered passive
suspension feeders that finely partition niche
space on the basis of feeding ecology (Breimer
1969; Meyer 1973; Ausich 1980; Ausich and
Bottjer 1982; Baumiller 1997; Messing et al.
2017). Notably, there are many skeletal features
in the arms of crinoids (e.g., arms, pinnules,
brachials, ambulacral grooves) that dictate the
maximum size of food particles captured, the
efficiency of the filtration fan, and the environmental conditions that are optimal for feeding
(Ausich 1980; Kammer 1985; Kammer and
Ausich 1987, 2006; Holterhoff 1997; Brower
2007; Baumiller 2008). The relationships
between these ecomorphologic characters and
niche partitioning in crinoids has been extensively documented in both fossil and living crinoids (Meyer 1973; Macurda and Meyer 1974;
Ausich 1980; Kitazawa et al. 2007; Baumiller
2008; see Cole et al. [2019] for a more detailed
review). The ecological traits included in this
study reflect two of the most important aspects
of feeding ecology (Ausich 1980; Cole et al.
2019). Filtration fan density (the total number
of feeding appendages in a given area) affects
feeding by altering the flow of water through
the filtration fan, and food size selectivity (controlled by the size of the terminal feeding
appendages) dictates the maximum size of the
food particle that can be captured.
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Data and Methods
Measuring Stratigraphic Duration.—Genus
duration was measured as the total duration
of a genus in millions of years (Myr) given its
constituent species. Stage-level bins were used
for Ordovician, Devonian, and Mississippian
occurrences, whereas series-level bins were
used for Silurian occurrences to maintain time
bins of roughly equal duration (mean 7.7 Myr,
median 7.7 Myr). Although division into finer
time bins would be desirable, temporal resolution is variable for the taxa used in this
study because of their global distribution and
broad stratigraphic ranges. Thus, stage- and
series-level time bins were used for estimating
genus duration so that taxa were treated at a
similar scale of resolution.
Genus duration in millions of years was tabulated using the 2013 Bibliography of Paleozoic
Crinoids (Webster and Webster 2014), which
was updated to include newly described taxa
and to match current divisions of the International Chronostratigraphic Chart. Genera
were assumed to originate at the beginning of
the time bin in which they first occurred and
to terminate at the end of the time bin in
which they last occurred. Genera with species
occurring in only one stage were assigned a duration equal to that of the stage.
Phylogenetic
Framework.—Paleobiological
studies often treat taxa as independent units,
despite the fact that species have shared
evolutionary history. The nonindependence of
species’ evolution is important to take into
account, because species that diverged more
recently from a common ancestor will share
more evolutionary history than species that
diverged less recently. This may result in
greater similarity between features of closely
related taxa, such as morphology, ecology,
and/or geographic distribution (Felsenstein
1985; Harvey and Pagel 1991; Wiens 2004;
Jablonski and Hunt 2006; Losos 2008; Hopkins
2011; Harnik et al. 2014). Here, trees recovered
from a recent phylogeny of diplobathrid crinoids (Cole 2018) were employed as a framework to take into account the effect of shared
evolutionary history on genus duration
(Fig. 1). The previous analysis of diplobathrid
phylogeny assessed relationships among 101
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FIGURE 1. Phylogenetic relationships, durations, lithologies, and species numbers for diplobathrid crinoid genera. Tree
topology is based on the strict consensus of 15 most-parsimonious trees recovered from a parsimony analysis of all wellpreserved diplobathrid genera. Symbols at the terminal tips represent the lithologic environment in which genera occur,
and the numbers following tips represent number of species within each genus. Stage-level stratigraphic ranges are plotted
for each genus to the right of the tree; each square represents one stage; stages not scaled to duration. Sp., number of species
per genus; Ord., Ordovician; Sil., Silurian; Dev., Devonian; Miss., Mississippian.
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diplobathrid genera (all but 4 of the currently
valid genera) using 135 discrete morphologic
characters. Fifteen most-parsimonious trees
were recovered, which were largely congruent
with trees resulting from Bayesian analysis
(see Cole [2018] for further details). In the present study, outgroup taxa were pruned from
the tree along with Cleiocrinus because of its
uncertain assignment to Diplobathrida (Cole
2018). As a result, all tree-based analyses of
extinction selectivity used a phylogenetic
framework containing 100 diplobathrid genera.
For evolutionary hypotheses to be incorporated into comparative studies, the tree must
first be scaled to provide branch lengths for
the tree in units of time (Bapst 2014). Each of
the 15 most-parsimonious trees recovered by
Cole (2018) were time-scaled 100 times using
the “basic” approach in the R package paleotree
(Bapst 2012) with the binned version of the timePaleoPhy function (bin_timePaleoPhy), in which
the placement of internal nodes represents the
earliest appearance of a taxon contained within
the clade (Norell 1992; Smith 1994). In this
approach, node ages are randomly drawn
from uniform distributions corresponding to
first appearance interval times. Time-scaling
trees using the first appearance method results
in zero-length internal branches that cannot be
used in comparative studies (Hunt and Carrano
2010), so to circumvent this issue, a small, arbitrary amount of time (0.01 Myr) was added to
each zero-length branch. This standard
approach allows the tree to be used for comparative phylogenetic analyses without significantly altering the tree’s structure or the
subsequent results (Hopkins 2011; Bapst 2013;
Harnik et al. 2014). All subsequent tree-based
analyses were conducted over the recovered
distribution of 1500 time-scaled trees.
Morphologic and Ecological Data.—To address
whether ecological variables were predictors of
genus duration, measurement data were collected for multiple continuous skeletal traits
that are directly tied to ecological functions.
Morphologic data were collected for 295 specimens across 185 species and 100 genera
(Supplementary Material). Measurements
were taken directly from specimens for all
taxa available for study at the Smithsonian
National Museum of Natural History, the
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London Natural History Museum, the Lapworth Museum, and the Chicago Field
Museum. For taxa that did not have specimens
at accessible museums, measurements were
collected from published literature. Measurement averages for each genus were calculated
from all specimens measured for that genus.
Measurements collected were calyx width
(measured where the arms become free), pinnule density (the number of pinnules per 5
mm of arm length), pinnule width, arm length
(from the edge of the calyx where the arms
become free to the distal terminus), brachial
width, and the number of terminal feeding
appendages (i.e., the total number of pinnules).
Arm length and calyx width were used to calculate the area of the filtration fan:
A = p(L + r)2 − pr2
(1)
where A is the area of the filtration fan, L is the
arm length, and r is the radius of the calyx
(Cole et al. [2019], modified from Ausich
[1980]). Although stem length plays an important role in crinoid niche partitioning along
with feeding structures (Ausich 1980; Ausich
and Bottjer 1982; Cole et al. 2019), preservation
of complete stems is rare. Only 7% of genera
investigated in this study preserved at least
one specimen with a complete stem, so stem
length was not considered here.
Because species niches are complex and
multidimensional, they cannot be adequately
represented by a single trait (Ausich 1980;
Pianka et al. 2017; Cole et al. 2019). For
example, continuously varying traits relating
to crinoid feeding structures like arm number,
pinnule and brachial dimensions, as well as
the arrangement of arms and pinnules, can
combine in countless ways to create filtration
fans that vary in their density, feeding efficiency, and ability to capture food particles of
different sizes. For this reason, it is the combined effect of multiple ecological traits rather
than the individual traits themselves that
should be evaluated when characterizing ecological niches. This is typically done through
ordination of ecological and/or ecomorphologic traits followed by identifying the trait(s)
that correspond to the major axes of variation
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(e.g., Pianka et al. 2017; Cole et al. 2019). Here, a
principal component analysis (PCA) was conducted in PAST (Hammer et al. 2001) on the
morphologic data collected for diplobathrids.
Traits included in the analysis were the number
of terminal arm tips, the area of the filtration
fan, brachial width, pinnule width, and pinnule
density. Because many of the traits have high
variance (up to three orders of magnitude),
variables were log transformed before multivariate analysis.
The first three components resulting from the
PCA accounted for more than 95% of the variance in morphologic data (64.4%, 24.0%, and
6.6%, respectively) and were interpreted as
body size, filtration fan density, and maximum
food particle size, respectively, based on their
corresponding
loadings
(Supplementary
Table 1). When analyzing morphologic data
using PCA, the first principal component (PC
1) typically represents size (Humphries et al.
1981; Revell 2009). Here, all morphologic variables had high positive loadings for PC 1,
which is consistent with a strong positive relationship between these variables and overall
body size. PC 2 represents the density of the filtration fan, particularly with regard to the number of terminal arm tips and pinnule density. PC
3 was interpreted as corresponding to maximum food size (hereafter “food size”), which
relates to brachial width and, to a lesser extent,
pinnule width. In all subsequent analyses, scores
for the first three principal components were
used to investigate the relationship between
taxonomic duration and ecomorphologic traits.
For brevity, variables are hereafter referred to
using trait names rather than PC axes interpreted as corresponding to those traits.
Environmental and Species Data.—Lithology
is an important factor in crinoid ecology,
because it relates to many aspects of the environment, including water turbulence, turbidity,
temperature, depth, and proximity to the shore.
As a result, lithology can be used as a coarse
proxy for habitat preference, and previous
work has indicated significant differences in
the distribution of crinoid clades across habitats
with different types of sediments (Kammer
1985; Holterhoff 1997; Kammer and Ausich
1987, 2006). I collected lithologic data from
the rock matrix associated with specimens
examined and/or from lithologic descriptions
of the associated formations in published literature. Lithology was categorized as carbonate,
siliciclastic, or mixed, and each genus was
assigned to lithology based on the rock
type(s) in which its constituent species were
found. Genera with occurrences that were
exclusively in carbonate or siliciclastic rocks
were assigned “carbonate” or “siliciclastic”
lithologies, respectively. “Mixed” lithology
was assigned to (1) genera whose constituent
species occurred in mixed siliciclastic–carbonate rocks (i.e., specimens were preserved in
rock composed of a mixture of siliciclastic and
carbonate material, indicating the individual
lived in a mixed siliciclastic–carbonate environment during life) and (2) genera that had constituent species that occurred in both pure
siliciclastic and pure carbonate rocks.
The final variable investigated as a potential
correlate of duration was species richness, as
measured by the number of species per genus.
I tabulated the number of species in each genus
using the 2013 Bibliography of Paleozoic Crinoids
(Webster and Webster 2014), supplemented
with more recently described taxa not included
in the bibliography. Species described from noncalyx material (e.g., only stem or arm fragments)
were excluded, as were species that are not currently valid (Supplementary Material).
Analyses.—All analyses were performed in
RStudio v. 1.1.463. To assess the effect of habitat
on taxonomic longevity, I first determined
whether genus durations within subsets of
lithologic data (carbonate, mixed, siliciclastic)
differed significantly by performing a Tukey’s
honest significant difference (HSD) test on lithology ANOVA data. This approach simultaneously applies pairwise comparisons to the
means of all treatments to find means with significant differences. On the basis of the Tukey’s
HSD test results (see “Results” for further information), all subsequent analyses were performed using lithologic subsets (carbonate,
mixed, and siliciclastic) and the full data set
including all three lithologies.
Separate analyses were conducted both with
and without the potential effects of phylogeny
taken into account. For taxonomic analyses
that did not consider phylogenetic nonindependence, I first calculated Spearman’s rank
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correlation coefficients to determine whether
species number, body size, filtration fan density,
and/or maximum food size were significantly
correlated with genus duration. Second, multiple linear regression (MLR) was employed to
determine the additive effects of multiple
variables on genus duration. Finally, Akaike’s
information criterion (AIC) was applied to all
MLR models (i.e., models representing all possible combinations of potential explanatory variables), and small sample size–corrected AIC
scores (AICc) were used to identify the combination of variables that best explained the data.
For phylogeny-based analyses, I first
employed phylogenetic generalized least
squares (PGLS) so that the effect of phylogeny
could be incorporated while estimating correlation between duration and the other variables
of interest (Felsenstein 1985; Grafen 1989;
Symonds and Blomberg 2014). Analyses were
run using functions from the R packages nlme
and ape (Paradis et al. 2004; Pinhero et al.
2018) with a Brownian motion model of evolution implemented. This is a “random walk”
model that predicts traits will change randomly
through time, and thus trait covariance
between taxa is expected to decrease through
time as changes accumulate along branch
lengths (Harmon 2018). PGLS was conducted
for both the full model that contained all variables considered and for models containing
all possible combinations of variables. AICc
scores were then calculated using geiger to
identify the combination of variables that constituted the “optimal” model (Harmon et al.
2008). Analyses were run over all 1500 timescaled trees, and the results were used to calculate mean β coefficients, mean p-values, and
the percentage of trees for which recovered
p-values were less than α = 0.05. Because
results of PGLS using full and optimal models
were qualitatively similar (Supplementary
Tables 3, 4), only results of the full models containing all variables are discussed.
To determine whether there is evidence for
phylogenetic structuring of traits, I calculated
Pagel’s λ for all variables using the phylosig
function from the R package phytools to determine the degree of phylogenetic signal in each
trait under a Brownian motion model of evolution (Pagel 1999; Cooper et al. 2010; Revell
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2012). Pagel’s λ was calculated for each of the
1500 time-scaled trees, and mean λ and associated p-values were computed for the distribution of trees. Blomberg’s K, a commonly used
alternative measure of phylogenetic signal
(Blomberg et al. 2003), was not used, because it
is sensitive to incomplete branch-length information (Molina-Venegas and Rodríguez
2017), which was the case in the data set used
here. Pagel’s λ, on the other hand, has been
shown to be robust to suboptimal
branch-length information and thus was considered preferable for this study (MolinaVenegas and Rodríguez 2017).
Finally, I calculated Cohen’s f 2, a measure of
effect size, for all variables with and without
phylogeny considered to determine the degree
to which each variable contributed to genus
duration (Cohen 1988). Although Cohen’s f 2
has not been commonly used for paleontological data, the metric can be used to determine the magnitude and relative effect of
variables in multiple regression models by
assessing the strength of the relationship
between a predictor variable and one or more
dependent variables. In addition, effect size
can be compared directly among models,
which makes this metric valuable for studies
including multiple predictor variables or comparing subsets of data (Selya et al. 2012).
Cohen’s f 2is calculated using R 2 values recovered from multiple regression analyses, so it
can be applied to both standard MLR and
PGLS (Selya et al. 2012: eq. 2):
f2 =
R2AB − R2A
1 − R2AB
(2)
where B is the variable of interest and A is the
combination of all other variables excluding
B. R2AB then is the proportion of variance
accounted for by all variables together, whereas
R2A is the proportion of variance accounted for
when B is excluded (Selya et al. 2012). For
example, in this study, Cohen’s f 2 for species
number is calculated using:
f 2 species =
R2sp+size+ffd+food − R2size+ffd+food
1 − R2sp+size+ffd+food
(3)
where subscripts denote the variables included
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in each regression model used to calculate R 2
values (sp = species number, size = body size,
ffd = filtration fan density, food = maximum
food size). In MLR, R 2 values can be recovered
from the summary of results from the lm() function in base R and used to calculate Cohen’s f 2.
For PGLS, however, R 2 values are not automatically supplied but can be calculated from
recovered log-likelihood scores using the
approach outlined by Nagelkerke (1991: eq.
1b; Anderson 2008: Appendix A.7):
2
R2 = 1 − exp − (l full − lnull )
N
(4)
Where lnull is the log likelihood of the null
model containing only the intercept term, lfull
is the log likelihood of the full model containing
all variables, and N is the sample size; this is
known as the Cox and Snell R 2 (Cox and Snell
1989; Nagelkerke 1991). Here, I calculated
Cohen’s f 2 values for the four variables of interest for both MLR and PGLS models. For all
PGLS models, Cohen’s f 2 values were calculated for each of the 1500 time-scaled trees,
and mean f 2 values were then calculated for
each variable. Using Cohen’s f 2, a trait is considered to have significant effect size if f 2 ≥ 0.02
(Cohen 1988). In addition, the magnitude of
effect size is considered small if 0.02 ≥ f 2 ≥ 0.15,
moderate if 0.15 ≥ f 2 ≥ 0.35, and large if f 2 ≥
0.35 (Cohen 1988).
Results
Lithologic Environment Analyses.—Of the 99
taxa (out of 100) for which lithologic data
were available, 55 occurred only in carbonate
environments, 15 occurred in mixed carbonate/siliciclastic environments, and 29 occurred
only in siliciclastic environments.
ANOVA indicated that the taxa occurring
in different lithologic environments are not
all from the same distribution ( p = 0.004;
Fig. 2A). The Tukey’s HSD test indicates significant differences in the mean durations of taxa
occurring in mixed versus carbonate lithologies
and mixed versus siliciclastic lithologies but
not between siliciclastic and carbonate lithologies (Table 1, Fig. 2B). Genera from mixed
lithologies have significantly longer durations
than those found in carbonate or siliciclastic
lithologies (Fig. 2).
Predictors of Duration.—Spearman’s rank
correlation indicates a significant positive
correlation between duration and number of
species per genus for the full data set and for
all lithologic subsets (Table 2, Fig. 3). In
FIGURE 2. Relationship between lithologic environment and stratigraphic duration of genera. A, Box plot of major lithologic
types with respect to duration. Error bars represent 95% confidence intervals, horizontal black lines represent means. B, Pairwise comparisons from Tukey’s HSD (honest significant difference) using ANOVA of lithologic data. Brackets represent 95%
family-wise confidence intervals; confidence intervals not containing 0 indicate difference between groups is statistically
significant.
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TABLE 1. Tukey’s multiple comparison of means at the
95% family-wise confidence level. Comparisons are given
for each combination of lithologic subsets. Bolded p-values
represent statistically significant differences between
taxonomic durations for lithologies. Lithologies are listed in
the order compared, so negative differences indicate taxa
occurring in the first lithology tend to have shorter
durations relative to those in the second lithology, and
positive differences indicate taxa occurring in the first
lithology have longer durations relative to those in the
second lithology.
Lithologies compared
Mixed vs. carbonate
Siliciclastic vs. carbonate
Siliciclastic vs. mixed
Differences
p-value
13.414
−0.999
−14.413
5.57 × 10−3
9.514
6.49 × 10−3
addition, duration is significantly correlated
with body size for the full data set, but not for
any of the lithologic subsets. Likewise, filtration
fan density and food size do not correlate significantly with duration for the full data set or
any of the lithologic subsets.
MLR recovers a significant positive correlation between duration and the number of species within a genus for the full data set as well
as for all lithologic subsets (Table 3, Fig. 4).
For genera occurring in carbonate environments, food size is also significantly correlated
with duration. None of the other variables
(body size, food size, or filtration fan density)
correlate significantly with duration at α =
0.05, regardless of lithologic environment. For
the full, carbonate, and mixed data sets, optimal models (e.g., the combination of variables
with the best fit to the observed data) identified
by AICc scores contain the same variables identified as significant predictors in multiple
regression analyses (Supplementary Table 2).
Species number was the only variable in the
optimal model for all lithologies combined
and the mixed subset, and the best-fit model
for the carbonate subset includes both species
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number and food size. For the siliciclastic subset, the optimal model includes both species
number and filtration fan density. However,
in each of the lithologic subsets, ΔAIC is very
small for several other models, suggesting support for the optimal models is not robust.
When phylogeny was incorporated into
regression analyses using PGLS, variables that
were significantly correlated with genus duration changed for lithologic subsets but not
for total combined lithology (Table 4, Fig. 5).
Results of PGLS for all lithologies combined
are identical to multiple regression, for which
only species number is significantly correlated
with duration (mean p = 6.31 × 10−4, p < 0.05 =
100%) (Figs. 4, 5). When correlations of traits
for carbonate data were evaluated using
PGLS, all significant correlations disappeared.
By contrast, accounting for phylogeny within
mixed and siliciclastic subsets resulted in recovery of additional significant correlates of duration. Whereas only species number was a
significant predictor for mixed and siliciclastic
lithologies under MLR, PGLS of mixed lithologies recovered species number (mean p = 4.08 ×
10−8, p < 0.05 = 100%), body size (mean p =
0.004, p < 0.05 = 100%), and food size (mean
p = 0.038, p < 0.05 = 80.6%) as significant predictors. For PGLS of siliciclastic lithologies,
both species number (mean p = 4.03 × 10−6, p
< 0.05 = 100%) and body size (mean p = 4.87 ×
10−2, p < 0.05 = 60.7%) were recovered as significant predictors of duration (Figs. 4, 5). For
PGLS, optimal models identified by AICc
scores contain different variables than those
identified as significant correlates of duration
(Supplementary Table 3). The optimal model
for all lithologies combined includes species
number, body size, and filtration fan density;
for the carbonate subset it includes only species
number; for the mixed subset it includes
TABLE 2. Spearman’s rank correlations between duration and species number, body size, crown shape, and filtration fan
density. Bold values are statistically significant; asterisks (*) indicate p-value range. *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001.
Spearman’s rho
Duration vs. species number
Duration vs. body size
Duration vs. filtration fan density
Duration vs. food size
All lithologies
Carbonate
Mixed
Siliciclastic
0.657***
0.290***
0.061
−0.049
0.612***
0.147
0.202
−0.116
0.87***
0.438
0.153
−0.046
0.63***
0.306
−0.069
0.007
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FIGURE 3. Scatter plots of all variables as a function of duration with least squares regression lines plotted for each lithologic subset. Data are subsetted by lithologic environment. See Table 2 for significance of correlations.
species number, body size, and food size; and
for the siliciclastic subset it includes species
number and body size. As with results from
MLR, however, there were multiple, alternative
models for each lithologic subset with only
marginally larger AICc scores, suggesting
equivocal support for optimal models.
Effect Size.—Cohen’s f 2 values calculated
from MLR recovered a large effect size for species number across the three lithologic subsets
as well as for all lithologies combined (Table 5).
For all total combined lithologies, no other variables were recovered with significant effect
sizes (Table 5). For the carbonate subset, small
effect sizes were recovered for filtration fan density ( f 2 = 0.04) and food size ( f 2 = 0.08). Within the
mixed subset, moderate effect sizes were recovered for body size ( f 2 = 0.33) and food size ( f 2
= 0.17), and small effect size was recovered for filtration fan density ( f 2 = 0.10). The only other significant effect size within the siliciclastic subset
was for filtration fan density ( f 2 = 0.10) (Table 5).
TABLE 3. Results of multiple linear regression for the additive effects of species number, body size, food size, and filtration
fan on duration. Coefficients ±1 SE are given for the full data set, including all lithologies and for lithologic subsets. Bold
values are statistically significant; asterisks (*) indicate p-value range. *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001.
Coefficient ± 1 SE
Trait
All lithologies
Carbonate
Mixed
Siliciclastic
Species number
Body size
Filtration fan density
Food size
1.77 ± 0.17***
2.34 ± 2.17
−0.15 ± 3.46
3.82 ± 6.57
3.07 ± 0.68***
−1.74 ± 3.67
10.82 ± 7.35
35.67 ± 15.51*
1.62 ± 0.17***
14.64 ± 8.11
10.97 ± 11.26
26.61 ± 20.3
3.44 ± 0.84***
0.26 ± 2.64
−4.86 ± 3.13
−1.79 ± 6.01
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FIGURE 4. Scatter plots of species number versus genus duration for all lithologies combined and for lithologic subsets.
Solid lines represent regression lines from multiple linear regression (upper row) and phylogenetic generalized least
squares (lower row). Shaded areas represent 95% confidence intervals. All regression lines are significant with the exception
of that for PGLS of carbonate data.
When phylogeny was accounted for by calculating Cohen’s f 2 from PGLS results, the significance and magnitude of effect size for traits
changed in several ways (Table 5, Fig. 5). For
total combined lithologies, species number
remained the only variable with large effect
size, but the magnitude of effect increased
from 1.17 to 7.88. In addition, effect sizes of
the other three traits increased from nonsignificant values to small effect size. Similarly,
when phylogeny was incorporated in the
mixed lithology subset, species number
retained a large effect size, and body size, filtration fan density, and food size increased
to large effect sizes (Table 5). For the siliciclastic subset under the PGLS model, effect size
for species number remained large, filtration
fan density decreased to a nonsignificant
level, and body size and food size increased
from nonsignificant to medium and small
TABLE 4. Results of phylogenetic generalized least squares for the additive effects of species number, body size, food size,
and filtration fan on duration. Mean β coefficients and p-values calculated across a distribution of 1500 time-scaled trees are
given, along with the percentage of trees for which p < 0.05 was recovered. Bold values are statistically significant.
Lithology
All lithologies
Carbonate
Mixed
Siliciclastic
Trait
Mean β coeffiecient
Mean p-value
% p < 0.05
Species number
Body size
Filtration fan density
Food size
Species number
Body size
Filtration fan density
Food size
Species number
Body size
Filtration fan density
Food size
Species number
Body size
Filtration fan density
Food size
2.015
−4.706
2.096
5.622
0.934
−1.969
5.270
20.601
1.417
21.246
11.658
34.665
3.667
−3.276
0.252
4.053
6.31 × 10
0.130
0.355
0.488
0.230
0.497
0.512
0.387
4.08 × 10−8
4.40 × 10−3
0.077
0.038
4.03 × 10−6
4.87 × 10−2
0.758
0.347
100%
55.7%
16.1%
10.9%
42.0%
4.5%
7.1%
21.1%
100%
100%
9.6%
80.6%
100%
60.7%
0%
3.3%
−4
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FIGURE 5. Results of phylogenetic generalized least squares and corresponding Cohen’s f 2 values for each variable. Panels
are divided by lithology: A, All lithologies combined; B, carbonate; C, mixed; and D, siliciclastic. For each panel, upper box
plots give the distribution of β coefficients for each of the four variables calculated over a distribution of 1500 time-scaled
trees, and mean p-values are given along with the percentage of trees for which p < 0.05 were recovered. Lower box plots in
each panel give the distribution of log(Cohen’s f 2), a measure of effect size. Horizontal lines represent the thresholds for small
( f 2 > 0.02, dotted line), moderate ( f 2 > 0.15, dashed line), and large ( f 2 > 0.35, solid line) effect sizes as defined by Cohen
(1988).
effect sizes, respectively. When phylogeny
was accounted for in the carbonate subset,
the effect of species number on duration
decreased from a large to a small effect size,
and body size increased from a nonsignificant
level to a small effect size; effect sizes for both
filtration fan density and food size remained
small (Table 5, Fig. 5).
Phylogenetic Signal.—Values of Pagel’s λ calculated for species number, body size, filtration
fan density, food size, lithology, and stratigraphic duration of genera indicated significant
TABLE 5. Effect size of traits on duration as given by Cohen’s f 2. Effect size was calculated for multiple regression and
phylogenetic generalized least squares models using all considered variables. Asterisks (*) indicate magnitude of effect size
based on values given by Cohen (1988). Effect size: *small ( f 2 > 0.02); **medium ( f 2 > 0.15); ***large ( f 2 > 0.35). Note that for
several traits, f 2 values are only marginally significant ( f 2 ≈ 0.02).
Regression model
Lithology
f2 Species number
f2 Body size
f2 Filtration fan density
f2 Food size
1.17***
0.41***
9.19***
0.70***
0.01
4.49 × 10−3
0.33**
3.88 × 10−4
1.86 × 10−5
0.04*
0.10*
0.10*
3.56 × 10−3
0.08*
0.17**
3.68 × 10−3
0.07*
0.02*
1.37***
0.21**
0.02*
0.02*
0.42***
6.53 × 10−3
0.02*
0.06*
0.61***
0.06*
Multiple regression
All lithologies
Carbonate
Mixed
Siliciclastic
Phylogenetic generalized least squares
All lithologies
Carbonate
Mixed
Siliciclastic
7.88***
0.10*
22.56***
1.61***
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TABLE 6. Phylogenetic signal of traits across the distribution of diplobathrid crinoid trees. Mean Pagel’s λ and p-values
calculated across all time-scaled trees are given, along with the proportion of trees for which p-values < 0.05 were recovered.
Trait
Mean Pagel’s λ
Proportion of p-values < 0.05
Mean p-value
0.305
0.628
0.382
0.345
0.526
0.203
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
1.88 × 10−4
7.54 × 10−29
7.37 × 10−16
7.36 × 10−12
1.99 × 10−21
9.75 × 10−4
Species number
Body size
Filtration fan density
Food size
Lithology
Duration
phylogenetic signal for all traits (Table 6). The
highest mean λ values were recovered for
body size (mean λ = 0.628) and lithology
(mean λ = 0.526), and the lowest mean values
were recovered for duration (mean λ = 0.203)
and species number (mean λ = 0.305). Although
values of λ varied (widely, in some cases) for
traits, all mean p-values were statistically significant, and 100% of p-values calculated from
all 1500 time-scaled trees were < 0.05 (Table 6,
Fig. 6).
Discussion
Phylogeny and Extinction Risk.—Several
recent studies on extinction selectivity in the fossil record have not found considerable differences between taxic and phylogenetic
approaches (e.g., Crampton et al. 2010;
Hopkins 2011; Harnik et al. 2014). By contrast,
in the four sets of comparisons investigated
here (all lithologies combined and the three lithologic environment subsets), I identified notable
differences between some, but not all,
results when phylogeny was incorporated.
Although the results of taxic and phylogenetic
approaches were broadly similar, accounting
for phylogenetic structure altered interpretations
considerably in some cases. Notably, incorporating phylogeny did not consistently weaken correlations between traits and duration, as is
commonly (but incorrectly) expected (Rohlf
2007). Instead, both the strength and the direction of certain relationships changed under comparative methods for all lithologic subsets.
Changes in the significance of correlations
under MLR versus PGLS models appear unpredictable a priori, with traits increasing, decreasing, or remaining the same. By contrast, many
changes in Cohen’s f 2 values (or lack thereof)
appear to be tied to the magnitude of the effect
size and are thus somewhat predictable. All
traits with medium or large effect sizes under
taxonomic approaches retained at least small
effect sizes when phylogeny was accounted
for, whereas traits with small effect sizes under
MLR lost all significant effect under PGLS. In
some cases, however, new traits with significant
effect sizes emerged under PGLS with no apparent connection to their effect sizes under MLR.
Differences between results of taxic and
phylogenetic approaches in this study suggest
non-phylogenetic methods recover similar
results only when correlation is strong and/or
effect size is very large. For example, I find
that traits with moderate to large ( f 2 > 0.15)
effect sizes are likely to retain significant effect
size when phylogeny is accounted for. However, phylogenetic approaches may recover
additional traits with significant effect sizes
with no obvious criteria predicting the traits
for which this may occur. Likewise, changes
in the significance of correlation between traits
and duration do not appear predictable. Overall, these results show interpretations of extinction selectivity can be altered in unpredictable
ways when phylogeny is taken into account
and highlight the importance of a comparative
approach when investigating correlates of
extinction risk.
All of the traits considered, including genus
duration and lithologic environment, were
found to have significant phylogenetic signals
(Table 6). Because this indicates phylogenetic
structuring of traits across at least part of the
diplobathrid tree, analyses incorporating phylogeny should provide results that more realistically reflect the evolutionary processes
responsible for generating observed patterns.
As a result, the majority of the following discussion will focus on the results of phylogenetic
rather than taxic approaches.
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FIGURE 6. Phylogenetic signal of traits across the diplobathrid phylogeny. Distributions represent values of Pagel’s
λ calculated for each trait over 1500 time-scaled trees.
Species Richness and Extinction Risk.—Of the
variables assessed here, the strongest control
on genus longevity of diplobathrid crinoids
appears to be the number of species within a
genus. The strong correlation between species
number and duration is recovered consistently
for taxonomic investigations of all lithologic
subsets, and when the effect of phylogeny is
considered using PGLS, species number
remains significantly correlated with duration
for all lithologic environments except carbonates (Fig. 4). Species number is also the only
trait for which a significant effect size is recovered regardless of lithologic environment
investigated or the regression model used.
Additionally, species number is the only common component among all optimal models
identified by AIC. As noted, a number of alternative models have only marginally larger
AICc values than the optimal models, but in
most cases these alternative models contain
species number (Supplementary Tables 2, 3).
Finally, Cohen’s f 2 values reveal species richness has the greatest effect size regardless of
subsetting by lithologic environment, indicating it has a greater relative contribution to
genus duration than do the other traits
(Table 5).
Several non–mutually exclusive reasons may
explain why species number corresponds so
strongly to the duration of diplobathrid genera.
First, higher species richness means random
extinction is less likely to wipe out all species
within a clade, and there are many examples
supporting species richness as a trait that buffers against extinction, at least during intervals
of background extinction (Jablonski 1986;
Payne and Finnegan 2007; Smits 2015; Foote
et al. 2016). Second, species number frequently
correlates strongly with geographic range size
(Jablonski and Roy 2003; Foote et al. 2016),
and an inverse relationship between geographic range size and extinction risk has
been documented for many fossil groups
(Hansen 1980; Jablonski and Hunt 2006; Payne
and Finnegan 2007; Powell 2007; Foote et al.
2008; Harnik et al. 2014; Smits 2015; see McKinney [1997] for a review). Although geographic
range size was not addressed in this study and
range data are not currently available, based on
the expected relationship between species number and geographic range, it is very possible
that diplobathrid genera with greater numbers
of constituent species had more extensive geographic ranges that would have buffered genera
from extinction, allowing them to persist in the
fossil record. In addition, geographic ranges of
genera and other higher taxa can also interact
synergistically with species richness to increase
resilience to extinction via increased ecological
diversity (Foote et al. 2016), but as with species
richness alone, this buffering is more pronounced during background extinctions than
mass extinctions (Jablonski 1986; Payne and Finnegan 2007).
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Another potential explanation for the significant correlation between genus duration and
species number may relate to species selection,
specifically “strict-sense species selection”
(sensu Jablonski 2008b), wherein differences
in speciation and/or extinction rates arise
from emergent, heritable properties at the species level (Vrba 1984; Okasha 2006; Jablonski
2008b; Rabosky and McCune 2010; Stadler
2011). As a result, heritable species-level traits
that have a significant effect on net diversification, such as geographic range size (Jablonski
1987; Hunt et al. 2005; Jablonski and Hunt
2006), may play an important role in survivorship. Strong phylogenetic signal recovered for
species richness of diplobathrid genera indicates species number is conserved across at
least part of the phylogeny and, by extension,
suggests speciation and extinction rates are heritable among diplobathrid crinoids. Although
further investigation would be necessary to
confirm the role, if any, of species selection in
the longevity of diplobathrid genera, such
results would complement a previous study
that found support for species selection in
monobathrid crinoids, the sister group to diplobathrids (Simpson 2010).
Habitat Breadth and Extinction Risk.—I interpret habitat, as defined by lithologic environment, to be the secondary control on duration
of diplobathrid genera, following species number. Tukey’s HSD test results indicate significant differences in duration corresponding to
lithologic environment (Fig. 2, Table 1). Further, species number correlates significantly
with duration for most lithologic subsets,
whereas the significance of other ecological
traits is highly variable among lithologic
subsets. This provides additional support for
the hierarchical ranking of species richness as
the primary control and lithology as the secondary control on diplobathrid genus duration.
Taxa inhabiting environments with mixed
lithologies were found to have significantly
longer durations than those living in exclusively siliciclastic or exclusively carbonate
environments (Fig. 2, Table 1). Many of the
physical environmental conditions of carbonate versus siliciclastic depositional settings
result in strikingly different habitats with dramatic differences in current strength and type,
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water depth, suspended sediment, and substrate conditions. As a result, genera with constituent species occurring in both carbonate
and siliciclastic environments and/or in environments with alternating carbonate and siliciclastic sedimentation must be capable of
coping with more extreme habitat variation
(Kammer 1985; Kammer and Ausich 1987; Holterhoff 1997; Kammer et al. 1998). Thus, I attribute the longer durations of crinoid genera
from mixed lithologic environments to greater
tolerance of environmental heterogeneity.
An inverse relationship between extinction risk
and environmental tolerance/niche breadth has
been documented in many other groups (Liow
2007; Heim and Peters 2011; Nurnberg and Aberhan 2013; see Colles et al. [2009] for a review),
including crinoids (Kammer et al. 1997, 1998),
in keeping with Simpson’s rule of “survival of
the unspecialized” (1944). Investigations of species longevity of Mississippian crinoids found
that clades with higher mean eurytopy scores (a
proxy for niche breadth calculated from the
mean number of facies per species) were composed of longer-lived species (Kammer et al.
1997, 1998). Although the type of environmental
data used in this study of diplobathrids (lithology
type) is different from that used by Kammer et al.
(1997, 1998; the eurytopy index), the same overall
pattern is recovered: greater environmental tolerance results in increased taxonomic longevity.
The results presented here indicate this pattern
holds true within crinoid clades, as well between
crinoid clades.
Ecology and Extinction Risk.—Body size, filtration fan density, and food size are considered tertiary controls on diplobathrid genus
duration. The degree of correlation and effect
size of these traits differ between lithologic
environments, indicating that controls on longevity vary within habitats. Body size was a
significant predictor of crinoid genus duration
only for mixed and siliciclastic environments
when phylogeny was taken into account. The
correlation between body size and duration
was positive for mixed environments but negative for siliciclastic environments (Table 4).
Many previous investigations have found
extinction risk increases with larger body size,
especially in vertebrates, as a result of covariation between body size and other traits that
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increase extinction risk, such as low reproductive rate, longer generation time, and smaller
population size (Gaston and Blackburn 1997;
Purvis et al. 2000; Cardillo et al. 2005; Tomiya
2013). By contrast, in marine invertebrates, larger body size may improve survivorship
through mechanisms like increased larval production, or it may not correlate with extinction
risk, because attributes that are more important
for survivorship may not covary with body size
(Williams 1975; Jablonski 1996; McKinney
1997). As a result, there is extensive heterogeneity in the correlations between taxonomic
survivorship and body size in marine invertebrates (Jablonski 1996; Lockwood 2005; Crampton et al. 2010; Harnik 2011), which suggests
body size plays a complex macroevolutionary
role in invertebrate groups that may be taxon
specific. Within crinoids, minimal treatment
has been given to understanding potential
ecological advantages of different body sizes
(Holterhoff 1997). In certain crinoid faunas,
body size has been found to covary with sedimentary environment, although a driving mechanism for this pattern has not been identified
(Watkins and Hurst 1977). Because the results
presented here recover body size as a significant
correlate of genus duration across some lithologic environments, it is possible that a similar
underlying process may be controlling both
patterns.
The relationships between genus duration
and the two traits investigated that relate to
feeding ecology—filtration fan density and
maximum food size—are also notable. A previous study of survivorship across multiple crinoid groups identified filtration fan density as an
important predictor of longevity, particularly
when comparing pinnulate and apinnulate crinoids (Baumiller 1993). By contrast, I found filtration fan density was not a significant
predictor of diplobathrid genus longevity,
although it did have a significant effect size
for taxa occurring in all but siliciclastic environments (Fig. 5, Tables 4, 5). Similarly, I found
maximum food size had significant effect size
for all lithologic subsets but was only a significant predictor of survivorship for taxa in mixed
lithologic environments, where taxa that could
capture larger food particles had longer durations. This may indicate these longer-lived
taxa were generalists with regard to food size
selectivity, that is, they were able to capture
both large and small food particles because of
wide ambulacra and associated feeding structures (however, note that this correspondence
between increasing ambulacral width and
decreasing selectivity for food size may be
applicable to pinnulate diplobathrids but does
not hold true for all crinoids, particularly
those with more open and/or apinnulate filtration fans that are unable to capture smaller food
particles) (Kammer 1985; Kammer and Ausich
1987). Food size selectivity is not recovered as
a significant correlate of duration for any of
the other lithologic environments.
The minimal correlation between ecology
and taxonomic duration is somewhat unexpected for two reasons. First, filtration fan density and food particle size are important
components of niche differentiation in crinoids
and determine whether a crinoid is a specialist
or generalist in its feeding ecology (Ausich
1980; Holterhoff 1997; Cole et al. 2019). For
example, specialist crinoids are those with
denser filtrations fans and the ability to capture
only small food particles (as controlled by
ambulacral width), because they require more
specific environmental conditions for optimal
feeding and can only capture a narrow range
of food particles. As a result, it would be
expected that specialist diplobathrids with
denser filtration fans and more restricted food
size selectivity would be more prone to extinction, regardless of lithologic environment.
Second, there are many documented examples
of strong covariation between structure of the
filtration fan and environmental settings
(Kammer and Ausich 1987; Holterhoff 1997;
Kammer et al. 1997, 1998; Brower 2007),
because filtration fans of different densities
require different environmental conditions for
optimal feeding to occur (Ausich 1980; Baumiller 1992; Kammer and Ausich 2006). If covariation between filtration fan structure and
habitat were conserved across diplobathrids,
we would expect filtration fan density to be a
significant predictor of duration, especially for
total combined lithologies. However, no such
pattern is recovered. Instead, habitat and feeding ecology appear to be decoupled in diplobathrids, at least insofar as their effects on genus
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duration are concerned. These results indicate
substantial heterogeneity in the effect of feeding ecology on taxonomic longevity. Further,
when coupled with conclusions from previous
investigations (Baumiller 1993; Kammer et al.
1997, 1998), it appears that the influence of ecology on taxonomic survivorship may vary
across phylogenetic scales, where fan structure
is important across crinoid clades, but plays a
minimal role within the diplobathrid clade.
Conclusions
Investigation of macroevolutionary patterns
in the fossil record should ideally account for
both the influence of phylogeny and the effect
of potentially interacting variables to avoid
overly simplified and/or potentially distorted
conclusions. Here, I applied a broad range of
analytical techniques to the fossil record of
diplobathrid crinoids to determine (1) the relative contributions of multiple variables to
extinction selectivity and (2) how phylogeny
effects interpretations of extinction selectivity.
From these approaches, I identified a series of
hierarchically nested variables that operate in
concert to control crinoid extinction selectivity.
Notably, I found species richness was the primary variable controlling diplobathrid genus
duration, which likely correlates with larger
geographic range size. I identified habitat,
defined by lithologic environment (carbonate,
mixed, or siliciclastic), as the secondary predictor of diplobathrid genus duration. Genera
inhabiting mixed lithologic settings were
found to have significantly longer durations
than those occurring in exclusively siliciclastic
or carbonate environments, which I attribute
to higher environmental tolerance and greater
niche breadth of taxa occurring in mixed environments. Finally, I identified two ecological
variables (filtration fan density and food size)
along with body size as weaker, tertiary controls
on diplobathrid extinction selectivity. The effect
of these variables on extinction selectivity differed widely among lithologic subsets, suggesting pressures of selective extinction vary
between habitats. These results contrast with a
previous study that identified filtration fan
density as an important predictor of survivorship across Crinoidea as a whole (Baumiller
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1993). Here, fan density had a significant effect
on genus duration only for diplobathrid crinoids
occurring in mixed lithologic environments.
This heterogeneity in the effect of ecological
traits on crinoid extinction selectivity demonstrates these traits play a complex role in the generation of crinoid macroevolutionary patterns,
with results depending on both phylogenetic
scale and lithologic environment considered.
Incorporation of phylogeny into the study of
diplobathrid longevity was found to have unpredictable effects on the association between traits
and genus duration. In most cases, predictor
variables that had strong associations with duration and moderately large effect sizes (Cohen’s
f 2 > 0.15) under taxic approaches, such as species
richness, were still recovered under phylogenybased analyses. However, accounting for phylogeny unexpectedly revealed new correlations
and/or significant effect sizes for some variables,
whereas other variables lost their associations
with duration entirely. These results suggest
strong associations recovered under taxic
approaches will still be recovered under phylogenetic approaches, but many nuances might
be overlooked. Importantly, moderate to weak
correlations might not be detected, and other
variables might be erroneously identified as significant predictors of extinction selectivity. Thus,
caution should be used when interpreting results
from studies that do not explicitly incorporate
phylogenetic hypotheses.
Acknowledgments
This research was supported through student research grants from the Paleontological
Society and Ohio State University’s Friends of
Orton Hall fund. Additional support was provided through a Presidential Fellowship (The
Ohio State University), a Springer Postdoctoral
Fellowship (Smithsonian Institution, National
Museum of Natural History) and a Kathryn
W. Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship (American
Museum of Natural History). The design of
this study and an early draft of the article
were improved through many insightful
discussions with W. I. Ausich. D. F. Wright provided assistance with coding and gave helpful
feedback on analyses, data visualization, and
a draft of this article. The article was also
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improved by comments from M. J. Hopkins
and by reviews from two anonymous referees.
I thank guest editors J. C. Lamsdell and
C. R. Congreve for inviting this article as a contribution to the Paleobiology Special Issue,
“Phylogenetic Paleoecology.” The design of
Figure 1 was modeled after Harnik et al.
(2014: Fig. 2).
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