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Paleozoic Brachiopod Biogeography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2017

David A. T. Harper and
Michael R. Sandy
David A. T. Harper
Affiliation:
Geological Museum, Øster Voldgade 5–7, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen DK-1350 Denmark
Michael R. Sandy
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH 45469-2364 USA
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Over two hundred years ago the Swedish scientist Carl Linnæus (1781), in an analysis of the biogeographic patterns of living organisms, suggested that all species originated in Paradise. Although there has been considerable progress in the understanding of biogeographical patterns during the intervening two centuries, modern debate has focused on the general applicability of the concept of faunal realms together with the relevance of dispersal, panbiogeographic, and vicariance models (Nelson and Platnick, 1981). To date, studies of Paleozoic brachiopod biogeography have no strong theoretical base; rather the various numerical techniques available, including both cladistic and phenetic methodologies, have helped organize the growing amount of distributional data into recognizable and useful structures.

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The Paleontological Society Papers , Volume 7: Brachiopods Ancient and Modern: A Tribute to G. Arthur Cooper , November 2001, pp. 207 - 222
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