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Southern Hemisphere Palaeobiogeography of Triassic-Jurassic Marine Bivalves

Southern Hemisphere Palaeobiogeography of Triassic-Jurassic Marine Bivalves

Damborenea, Susana E.
Echevarría, Javier
Ros-Franch, Sonia

Paperback

Series: Springerbriefs in Earth System Sciences

Botany & HorticultureGeologyPaleontology

ISBN10: 9400750978
ISBN13: 9789400750975
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Sep 27 2012
Pages: 139
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Palaeobiogeography is a complex subject which processes information provided by both Biology and Earth Sciences. It is conceptually and philosophically equivalent to neobiogeography. Nevertheless, its methods are somewhat different, since it is limited by the incompleteness of the fossil record. On the other hand, it has direct access to the time dimension, a key ingredient of organic evolution. Mesozoic benthonic mollusks, and especially bivalves, have a great potential for palaeobiogeographical analysis due to their commonly good preservation, abundance, diversity and high dispersion potential at the larval stage. From a merely descriptive point of view, the analysis of their distribution shows latitudinal gradients and distributional patterns, both at regional and global scales, which are the basis for the recognition of biochoremas or palaeobiogeographical units of different ranks. Moving forward towards a causal

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