Biopalaeogeography and palaeoecology Diversity patterns and palaeobiogeographical relationships of latest Devonian-Lower Carboniferous foraminifers from South China: What is global, what is local?
Markus Aretz1, *, Elise Nardin1, Daniel Vachard2
1. Géosciences Environnement Toulouse (GET), Observatoire Midi Pyrénées, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, IRD, 14 Avenue E. Belin, F-31400 Toulouse, France��
2. Université Lille 1, UMR 8217 Géosystèmes, Batiment SN5, Avenue Paul Langevin, F-59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq cedex, France
During latest Devonian and early Carboniferous times, calcareous foraminifers were abundant, widely distributed, and showed the most rapid rate of evolution in the shallow-sea deposits. These factors, especially their fast phylogenetic changes, make them an essential element in biostratigraphic schemes of this time interval. However, the distribution patterns of calcareous foraminifers depend on a series of biological and non-biological factors, such as population sizes, dispersion, oceanic currents and temperatures, and substrate types, which are not always well-controlled when interpreting spatial and temporal distribution patterns.
We thank Ian Somerville (Dublin) for his constructive review and Yuan Wang, Min Liu and Xiu-Fang Hu for editorial support. The authors would like to acknowledge their Chinese and Belgian colleagues who generated the data used in this study.
Markus Aretz,Elise Nardin,Daniel Vachard. Biopalaeogeography and palaeoecology Diversity patterns and palaeobiogeographical relationships of latest Devonian-Lower Carboniferous foraminifers from South China: What is global, what is local?[J]. Journal of Palaeogeography, 2014, 3(1): 35-59 .
Markus Aretz,Elise Nardin,Daniel Vachard. Biopalaeogeography and palaeoecology Diversity patterns and palaeobiogeographical relationships of latest Devonian-Lower Carboniferous foraminifers from South China: What is global, what is local?[J]. Journal of Palaeogeography, 2014, 3(1): 35-59 .
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