Table of Contents - MWR189: Phanerozoic Faunal and Floral Realms of the Earth: The Intercalary Relations of the Malvinokaffric and Gondwana Faunal Realms with the Tethyan Faunal Realm

Foreword

Abstract

Prologue

Statement of the Problem

Biogeographical Principles

Reproductive Communication

Marine Environment
Nonmarine Environment
Nonmarine Vertebrate Dispersal Across Marine Barriers Examples of the Problem Americas
Africa-Arabia
Australia
Indus-Yarlung Suture Zone Biogeographical Terminology

Atlantic Realm

Malvinokaffric Realm

Gondwana Realm

Introduction
Marine Invertebrates of the Late Paleozoic
Comments on Late Paleozoic Glaciomarine Deposits of Northern Russia
Triassic-Jurassic Invertebrates of Gondwana
Tetrapods
Floras
Bipolarity of Global Biotas and Climate
Conclusions Faunal and Floral Realms: From the Subcontinent to New Guinea General
Indian Subcontinent–Western China Pre-Carboniferous
Carboniferous
Permian
Triassic
Jurassic-Cretaceous Southeastern Asia
Pre-Carboniferous
Carboniferous
Permian
Mesozoic Australia
General
Pre-Carboniferous
Carboniferous
Permian
Mesozoic New Zealand
Pre-Carboniferous
Carboniferous
Permian
Mesozoic Faunal and Floral Realms: From the Subcontinent to the Americas Southwestern Asia-Arabia
Pre-Carboniferous
Carboniferous
Permian
Mesozoic Central Afghanistan Channel
Madagascar Pre-Permian
Permian
Mesozoic Seychelles Bank
Africa General
Pre-Carboniferous
Carboniferous
Permian
Triassic
Jurassic-Cretaceous Antarctica Pre-Permian
Permian
Triassic
Jurassic-Cretaceous South America Pre-Carboniferous
Mississippian
Pennsylvanian
Permian
Triassic Eastern North American Triassic-Jurassic Basins Pangaea and the Late Cretaceous

Intercalary Zone

Factors Related to the Pangaea Problem

Evaporites
Coals
Changing Widths of Climatic Zones
Early Permian Stream Base Level
Gondwana’s Erosion Products
Glaciation and the Need for Oceans
High-Latitude Life Conclusions

Acknowledgments

References Cited

Index