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| Title: |
Carboniferous biogeography of the bryozoan Archimedes in North America |
| Author: |
Mckinney, Frank K. |
| Appeared in: |
Historical biology |
| Paging: | Volume 7 (1993) nr. 1 pages 71-90 |
| Year: |
1993-07 |
| Contents: |
The fenestrate bryozoan genus Archimedes apparently originated and then diversified in Early Carboniferous seas of eastern North America. Its highest species richness and greatest abundance are reached in uppermost Lower to lowest Upper Carboniferous (Chesterian) rocks of eastern North America. Following the unconformity that marks the mid-Carboniferous eustatic event, however, it is known in North America only in Upper Carboniferous basinal deposits of the Oquirrh Mountains and in nearby regions of Utah and Nevada. It is hypothesized that Archimedes' life-history patterns caused the biogeographical change: dependence on fragmentation as a means of recruitment did not allow Archimedes to keep up with its rapidly migrating preferred back-barrier environment during the numerous eustatic transgressive and regressive cycles that caused the shoreline to sweep across North America during the Late Carboniferous. The persistence of Archimedes in the Oquirrh Basin and vicinity is inferred to have resulted from its preferred back-barrier environment migrating only locally along the relatively steep basinal slope present there during the Late Carboniferous eustatic cycles. |
| Publisher: |
Taylor & Francis |
| Source file: |
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