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Per Ahlberg

Per Ahlberg

Professor emeritus

Per Ahlberg

Global Cambrian trilobite palaeobiogeography assessed using parsimony analysis of endemicity

Author

  • J. Javier Álvaro
  • Per Ahlberg
  • Loren E. Babcock
  • Osvaldo L. Bordonaro
  • Duck K. Choi
  • Roger A. Cooper
  • Gappar Kh. Ergaliev
  • I. Wesley Gapp
  • Mansoureh Ghobadi Pour
  • Nigel C. Hughes
  • 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
  • Zhiyi Zhou
  • Anna Zylinska Zylinska
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Editor

  • David A.T. Harper
  • Thomas Servais

Summary, in English

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.

Department/s

  • Lithosphere and Biosphere Science

Publishing year

2013

Language

English

Pages

273-296

Publication/Series

Early Palaeozoic Biogeography and Palaeogeography

Volume

Memoir 38

Issue

38

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Geological Society of London

Topic

  • Geology

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0435-4052
  • ISBN: 978-1-86239-373-8