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Biogeographic influences on Early Cretaceous paleocommunities, Western Interior

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2016

R. W. Scott
R. W. Scott*
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Amoco Production Company, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74102
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Abstract

A preliminary comparison of Early Cretaceous paleocommunities in the Caribbean and contiguous Southern Western Interior provinces of North America suggests that the important factors for the differences were climate, basinal tectonics, sedimentation rates and the resulting substrates, environmental heterogeneity, evolution rates, and migration paths. Some paleocommunities were endemic to one province, and others were found in both provinces but differed in relative abundance patterns, species composition, diversity, and trophic structure.

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Research Article
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 60 , Issue 2 , March 1986 , pp. 197 - 207
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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