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Evolutionary crisis within the Ordovician acrotretid inarticulate brachiopods of Poland

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Extinction Events in Earth History

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Abstract

Acrotretidae, a group of short time range, dynamically evolved during the Cambro-Ordovician times and became extinct by the end of the Ordovician except for three genera of the Scaphelasma line going up to the Silurian and of the Torynelasma line going on to the Lower Devonian. In Poland, acrotretids are very diversified in Ordovician, especially in the Lower Ordovician/Upper Tremadocian-Llanvirnian), similarly as e.g. in Balto-Scandia (Sweden, Estonia, Leningrad environs). The main factors responsible for their mass extinction are discussed: they comprise, among others, changes of sea level, changes of climate in connection with glaci-eustatic events and fluctuations in the rate of the sea-floor spreading.

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  1. Zaklad Paleobiologii PAN, Al. Zwirki i Wigury 93, PL 02-089, Warszaw, Poland

    Gertrude Biernat

  2. Institute of Geological Sciences PAN, Al. Zwirki i Wigury 93, PL 02-089, Warszaw, Poland

    Wieslaw Bednarczyk

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Biernat, G., Bednarczyk, W. (1990). Evolutionary crisis within the Ordovician acrotretid inarticulate brachiopods of Poland. In: Kauffman, E.G., Walliser, O.H. (eds) Extinction Events in Earth History. Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, vol 30. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0011138

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