Southern Hemisphere Palaeobiogeography of Triassic-Jurassic Marine Bivalves

• Main Authors: Damborenea, Susana E. (Author), Echevarra̕, Javier. (Author), Ros-Franch, Sonia. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences,
• Subjects: Geography.; Life sciences.; Geology.; Paleontology.; Earth Sciences.; Biogeosciences.; Historical Geology.; Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5098-2

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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• -Paleobiogeography and neobiogeography
• -Why bivalves?
• -Time frame
• -Paleogeography
• -Paleoclimates and water temperatures
• -Paleocurrents
• Techniques
• -The data
• -Quantification: a difficult approach
• -Analytic methods
• A bivalve perspective
• -Previous research: a northern hemisphere affair
• -Some general issues
• -Paleobiogeographic affinities
• Regional scale
• -Facies and bivalve distributions: examples from the Neuquň Basin
• -Latitudinal gradients
• -Distribution patterns and boundaries
• Hemispheric scale
• -Data
• -Biochoreme recognition
• -Evolution of biochoremas
• -Evolution of biochoreme boundaries and its causes
• -Congruence
• -Paleobiogeographic units and mass extinctions. Global scale
• -Bipolarity
• -Seaways: the Hispanic Corridor
• -Oceanic currents
• -Evolution of global biochoreme boundaries.