Palaeozoic Palaeogeography and Biogeography Palaeozoic Palaeogeography and Biogeography

EDITED BY

W. S. McKERROW Department of Earth Sciences University of Oxford & C. R. SCOTESE Shell Development Company Houston, Texas

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Palaeozoic Palaeogeography and Biogeography. 1. Geological eras I. McKerrow, W. S. (William Stuart), 1922- II. Scotese, C. R. (Christopher Robert) 1959- III. Geological Society of London IV. Series 551.7

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SCOrESE, C. R. & McKERROW, W. S. Revised World Maps COLBATH, G. K. Palaeogeography of Middle Palaeozoic and Introduction, 1 organic-walled phytoplankton, 207 NESTOR, H. Biogeography of Silurian stromatoporoids, 215 BERDAN, J. M. Silurian and Early Devonian biogeography Palaeomagnetism and Palaeoclimates of ostracodes in North America, 223 EDWARDS, D. Constraints on Silurian and Early Devonian TORSVIK, T. H., SMETHURST, M. A., BRIDEN, J. C. & phytogeographic analysis based on megafossils, 233 STURT, B. A. A review of palaeomagnetic data from YOUNG, G. C. Devonian vertebrate distribution patterns Europe and their palaeogeographical implications, 25 and cladistic analysis of palaeogeographic hypotheses, 243 BACHTADSE, V. & BRIDEN, J. C. Palaeomagnetic STOCK, C. W. Biogeography of Devonian constraints on the position of Gondwana during stromatoporoids, 257 Ordovician to Devonian times, 43 PEDDER, A. E. H. & OLIVER, W. Rugose coral distribution KErn, D. V. & VAN DER VOO, R. Palaeozoic as a test of Devonian palaeogeographic models, 267 palaeogeography from palaeomagnetism of the Atlantic- BLODGETr, R. B., ROHR, D. M. & BOUCOT, A. J. Early bordering continents, 49 and Middle Devonian gastropod biogeography, 277 WiTzrm, B. J. Palaeoclimatic constraints for Palaeozoic PONCET, J. Biogeography of Devonian algae, 285 palaeolatitudes of Laurentia and Euramerica, 57 STREEL, M., FAIRON-DEMARET, M. & LOBOZIAK, S. SCOTESE, C. R. & BARREI'F, S. F. Gondwana's movement Givetian-Frasnian phytogeography of Euramerica and over the South Pole during the Palaeozoic: evidence western Gondwana based on miospore distribution, 291 from lithological indicators of climate, 75 Hou, HONG-FEI & BOUCOT, A. J. The Balkhash- VAN HOUTEN, F. B. & Hou, HONG-FEI. Stratigraphic and Mongolia-Okhotsk region of the Old World Realm palaeogeographic distribution of Palaeozoic oolitic (Devonian), 297 ironstones, 87 Carboniferous-Permian Biogeography Early Palaeozoic Biogeography BAMBACH, R. K. Late Palaeozoic provinciality in the marine COCKS, L. R. M. & FORTEY, R. A. Biogeography of realm, 307 Ordovician and Silurian faunas, 97 KELLEY, P. H., RAYMOND, A. & LUTKEN, C. B. BERGSTROM, S. M. Relations between conodont Carboniferous brachiopod migration and latitudinal provincialism and the changing palaeogeography during diversity: a new palaeoclimatic method, 325 the Early Palaeozoic, 105 LANE, N. G. & SEVASTOPULO, G. D. Biogeography of FINNEY, S. C. & CHEN, Xo. The relationship of Lower Carboniferous crinoids, 333 Ordovician graptolite provincialism to WATERS, J. A. The palaeobiogeography of the Blastoidea palaeogeography, 123 (Echinodermata), 339 BERRY, W. B. N. & WILDE, P. Graptolite biogeography: Ross J. P. R. & Ross, C. A. Late Palaeozoic bryozoan implications for palaeogeography and biogeography, 353 palaeoceanography, 129 ZIEGLER, A. M. Phytogeographic patterns and continental RICKARDS, R. B., RIGBY,S. & HARRIS, J. H. Graptoloid configurations during the Permian Period, 363 biogeography: recent progress, future hopes, 139 CRICK, R. E. Cambrian-Devonian biogeography of nautiloid cephalopods, 147 Palaeozoic Geography BURRETT, C., LONG, J. & STAIT, B. Early-Middle Palaeozoic biogeography of Asian terranes derived from Loa'rEs, A. L. & ROwLEY, D. B. Early and Late Permian Gondwana, 163 reconstructions of Pangaea, 383 LiAo, WEI-HUA. The biogeographic affinities of East Asian NIL, SHANGYOU, ROWLEY, D. B. & ZIEGLER, A. M. corals, 175 Constraints on the location of the Asian microcontinents SHEEHAN, P. M. & COOROUGH, P. J. Brachiopod in Palaeo-Tethys during the Late Palaeozoic, 397 zoogeography across the Ordovician-Silurian extinction ROBARDET, M., PARIS, F. & RACHEBOEUF, P. R. event, 181 Palaeogeographic evolution of southwestern Europe during Early Palaeozoic times, 411 YOUNG, T. P. Ordovician sedimentary facies and faunas of Silurian-Devonian Biogeography southwest Europe: palaeogeographic and tectonic implications, 421 BOUCOT, A. J. Silurian biogeography, 191 ISAACSON, P. E. & SABLOCK, P. E. Devonian TUCKEY, M. E. Distributions and extinctions of Silurian palaeogeography and palaeobiology of the Central Bryozoa, 197 Andes, 431