Late Palaeozoic faunas of Australia

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Jul 1976

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1976esrv...12..235r&link_type=abstract

Earth Science Reviews, Volume 12, Issue 2-3, p. 235-257.

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Marine invertebrates are the common animal fossils of the Carboniferous and Permian of Australia. Most come from the eastern and northwestern parts of the continent, and there are important differences as well as similarities between the faunas of each region. In the Early Carboniferous, both regions were inhabited by tropical or warm temperate animals. When the Australian sector of Gondwanaland moved towards the south pole in the Middle Carboniferous, the biota suddenly became less diverse, and cool-temperate provincial faunas developed. Consequently, it is difficult to make precise international correlations after the Early Carboniferous. Therefore, a new Australian time scale with seven divisions of Carboniferous and Permian time is proposed. These time divisions are not formally named. In addition, an attempt is made to identify associations of animals that inhabited the common marine environments at different times in the Australian Late Palaeozoic.

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