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Global Cambrian trilobite palaeobiogeography assessed using parsimony analysis of endemicity

  • J Javier Alvaro
  • , Per Ahlberg
  • , James B Jago
  • , Igor Korovnikov
  • , John R Laurie
  • , Bruce S Lieberman
  • , John R Paterson
  • , Tatyana V Pegel
  • , Leonid E Popov
  • , Adrian W A Rushton
  • , Sergei S Sukhov
  • , M Franco Tortello
  • , Loren E Babcock
  • , Zhiyi Zhou
  • , Anna Zylinska
  • , Osvaldo L Bordonaro
  • , Duck K Choi
  • , Roger A Cooper
  • , Gappar K H Ergaliev
  • , I Wesley Gapp
  • Mansoureh Ghobadi Pour, Nigel C Hughes

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Abstract

Palaeobiogeographical data on Cambrian trilobites obtained during the twentieth century are combined in this paper to evaluate palaeoceanographic links through 'c'. 30 myr, once these arthropods biomineralized. Worldwide major tectonostratigraphic units are characterized at series intervals of Cambrian time and datasets of trilobite genera (629 for Cambrian Series 2, 965 for Cambrian Series 3, and 866 for the Furongian Series) are analysed using parsimony analysis of endemicity. Special attention is given to the biogeographical observations made in microcontinents and exotic terranes. The same is done for platform-basinal transects of well-known continental margins. The parsimony analysis of endemicity analysis resulted in distinct palaeogeographical area groupings among the tectonostratigraphic units. With these groupings, several palaeobiogeographical units are distinguished, which do not necessarily fit the previously proposed biogeographical realms and provinces. Their development and spatial distributions are broadly controlled by Cambrian palaeoclimates, palaeogeographical conditions (e.g. carbonate productivity and anoxic conditions) and ocean current circulation.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEarly Palaeozoic Biogeography and Palaeogeography
EditorsD A T Harper, Thomas Servais
Place of PublicationLondon, United Kingdom
PublisherLondon Geological Society
Pages273-296
Edition1
ISBN (Print)9781862393738
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013

Publication series

NameGeological Society of London Memoirs
Number38
ISSN (Print)0435-4052
ISSN (Electronic)2041-4722

Keywords

  • Biogeography and Phylogeography
  • Palaeontology (incl Palynology)

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