The term "Lazarus Effect" gets used a lot in a theoretical sense, but I would like to find out what sort of durations the "outages" are for Lazarus taxa.
Some examples among rudist bivalves are recorded in Skelton, P.W. & Gili, E. (2012) Rudists and carbonate platforms in the Aptian: a case study on biotic interactions with ocean chemistry and climate. Sedimentology, 59, 81-117. Most notable are the caprinid rudists, which are widely distributed in Lower Aptian Tethyan carbonate platform deposits, but disappear completely from the known stratigraphical record for most of the Upper Aptian, re-appearing only in the uppermost Aptian and more abundantly in the Albian of the New World, but not until the Upper Albian and then more abundantly again in the Cenomanian of the Old World. The Lazarus gaps involved are discussed in our paper and shown in Fig. 10 therein. We suspect ocean acidification (caused by high rates of superplume-related volcanic CO2 effusion, but also by subsequent climate changes) were the main drivers.
Thanks Peter, this is exactly the type of thing I am looking for.
I am not quite sure whether you want to know more about neontologic or paleontologic lazarus taxa. But since you are interested in the durations of absence from the record i presume you are interessted in paleontological data.
Anyway, my suggestion for an neontological approch would be:
Keith, D.A. & Burgman, M.A. 2004, The Lazarus effect: can the dynamics of extinct species lists tell us anything about the status of biodiversity?. Biological Conservation 117 (1): 41–48
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0006-3207(03)00261-1
My suggestion for an paleontological approach is:
Benton, M.J. et al. 2004, Ecosystem remodelling among vertebrates at the Permian–Triassic boundary in Russia. Nature 432: 97-100
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature02950
In carribbean modern sediments, we found two dinoflagellate cyst species thought (up to now) extinct since Pliocene. That is discussed in :
« Organic-walled dinoflagellate cyst distribution in the Gulf of Mexico »
Limoges A., Londeix L., de Vernal A.. Marine Micropaleontology in a forthcoming issue (it has been accepted some weeks ago).
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