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Biogeography of Paleozoic Ammonoids

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Ammonoid Paleobiology: From macroevolution to paleogeography

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The spatial distribution of Paleozoic ammonoids shows an indifferent picture. Time intervals with inconspicuous biogeographic patterns alternate with intervals of well-expressed provincialism. The Devonian appears to be a time with general cosmopolitanism with a slowly increasing differentiation of ammonoid provinces by increasing endemism of cosmopolitan genera. In the Carboniferous, clearly separated provinces characterized by ammonoid assemblages composed of different genera and families occur particularly in the Late Viséan, Serpukhovian and Bashkirian. Early Permian ammonoid provinces are latitudinally arranged, a separation of equatorial and boreal faunas is possible on the basis of major differences in family and genus compositions.

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We thank Sonny A. Walton for reading the English text and Christian Klug (Zürich) as well as Royal Mapes (Athens, Ohio) for reviewing an earlier version of the manuscript. We dedicate this chapter to Fabrizio Cecca for his inspiring work on ammonoid biogeography.

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    Dieter Korn

  2. GeoZentrum Nordbayern, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Loewenichstraße 28, 91054, Erlangen, Germany

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Korn, D., De Baets, K. (2015). Biogeography of Paleozoic Ammonoids. In: Klug, C., Korn, D., De Baets, K., Kruta, I., Mapes, R. (eds) Ammonoid Paleobiology: From macroevolution to paleogeography. Topics in Geobiology, vol 44. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9633-0_6

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