Southern Hemisphere Palaeobiogeography of Triassic-Jurassic Marine Bivalves - Damborenea, Susana E.; Echevarría, Javier; Ros-Franch, Sonia; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
Introduction -- -Paleobiogeography and neobiogeography -- -Why bivalves? -- -Time frame -- -Paleogeography -- -Paleoclimates and water temperatures -- -Paleocurrents -- Techniques -- -The data -- -Quantification: a difficult approach -- -Analytic methods -- A bivalve perspective -- -Previous research: a northern hemisphere affair -- -Some general issues -- -Paleobiogeographic affinities -- Regional scale -- -Facies and bivalve distributions: examples from the Neuquén Basin -- -Latitudinal gradients -- -Distribution patterns and boundaries -- Hemispheric scale -- -Data -- -Biochoreme recognition -- -Evolution of biochoremas -- -Evolution of biochoreme boundaries and its causes -- -Congruence -- -Paleobiogeographic units and mass extinctions. Global scale -- -Bipolarity -- -Seaways: the Hispanic Corridor -- -Oceanic currents -- -Evolution of global biochoreme boundaries.
Keywords: Paleontology .; Geobiology; Historical geology; Plant systematics; Plant taxonomy; Paleontology; Biogeosciences; Historical Geology; Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.