Biogeographical patterns of Ordovician ostracods

Meidla, T.; Tinn, O.; Salas, M. J.; Williams, M.; Siveter, D.; Vandenbroucke, T.R.A.; Sabbe, K.. 2013 Biogeographical patterns of Ordovician ostracods. In: Harper, D.A.T.; Servais, T., (eds.) Early Palaeozoic biogeography and palaeogeography. London, UK, Geological Society of London, 337-354. (Geological Society Memoir, 38, 38).

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Abstract/Summary

The biogeography of marine shelf ostracod genera is analysed for two Ordovician time slabs, the earliest Late Ordovician and the terminal Ordovician, that have been considered to reflect comparatively warmer and cooler global climate states, respectively. The earlier time slab is equivalent to the Nemagraptus gracilis graptolite interval (centred about 460 Ma), and defined as the total range of the eponymous species. The Hirnantian time slab comprises the Normalograptus extraordinarius and Normalograptus persculptus graptolite biozones (445.6–443.7 Ma). The ostracod dataset consists of 160 taxa from 24 early Late Ordovician localities and 86 taxa from 10 Hirnantian localities. Ordination and variation partitioning analyses show that patterns in ostracod distribution in the gracilis time slab are largely related to palaeocontinental affinity of the samples and to a lesser degree to palaeolatitude. Some decrease of provincialism can be suggested for the Hirnantian, although the ostracod dataset is limited for this interval.

Item Type:	Publication - Book Section
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1144/M38.21
ISSN:	0435-4052
Date made live:	02 Jan 2014 16:37 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/504386

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