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Every historical approach is inescapably attracted to identify nostalgic “golden ages”. For the marine biogeographer, the Tethys sea in the shape of a world-encompassing tropical sea represented such a golden age. Starting with a gulf-like indentation in the late Paleozoic Pangea (the “Paleotethys”), it gradually separated the southern from the northern continents (the “Neotethys”).
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Por, F.D. (1989). Postface: The Legacy of Tethys — Or the Guise of a Conclusion. In: The Legacy of Tethys. Monographiae Biologicae, vol 63. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0937-3_7
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