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Evolution of archaeocyaths and palaeobiogeography of the Early Cambrian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev
Andrey Yu. Zhuravlev
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Laboratory of Ancient Skeletal Organisms, Palaeontological Institute, USSR Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya 113, 117 868, GSP-7, Moscow, B-321, USSR
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Abstract

In the Early Cambrian, there were two peaks of the increase in number of new archaeocyathan genera. These diversification bursts are, perhaps, related to significant changes in Early Cambrian palaeogeography. The first burst at the beginning of the Atdabanian was, perhaps, connected with the initiation of archaeocyathan expansion beyond the Siberian Platform. During the second half of the Atdabanian, closely related archaeocyathan assemblages were established from North Africa to Australia because neither climate, nor geographic isolation could have affected their differentiation in that time. At the end of the Atdabanian and the beginning of the Botomian the number of archaeocyathan genera again increased sharply, and isolated provinces were established. The American–Koryakiyan province was formed in western North America (from Alaska to Sonora) and included the Koryakiya, while the Afro–Siberian–Antarctic province probably extended from North Africa and Western Europe to Siberia, Australia, and Antarctica. The main difference between the regular archaeocyathan assemblages lies in what skeletal elements filled the intervallum. There was a certain stability in the distribution of skeletal elements of high taxonomic rank and an interchangeability of elements of low taxonomic rank.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 123 , Issue 4 , July 1986 , pp. 377 - 385
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1986

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