Origin and evolution of the genera Lonsdaleia and Actinocyathus: Insights for the Mississippian palaeogeography from the western Palaeotethys

The Mississippian was an epoch of strong earth system changes, both tectonic and climatic. During the Mississippian, the marine faunas experienced a recovery after the late Devonian mass extinctions, and the rugose corals are a conspicuous example. This study tries to give a general view of the utility of rugose coral to reconstruct the palaeogeography in the Western Palaeotethys during the Mississippian. The methodology includes a database with the genera and species recorded in that area and time period, compiled using more than 700 articles and revisions of several collections in Europe. We worked with the six sub-provinces defined in previous studies for the Western Palaeotethys. A generic-level analysis was performed using paired group hierarchical clustering, building clusters for the Tournaisian, early Visean, late Visean and Serpukhovian. With that information, palaeomaps for those intervals have been illustrated and discussed. The rugose corals have some deficits for the reconstruction of the biogeography because of their strong palaeoecologic control and their insufficient and unequal record, but they provide important information that improves the knowledge on the palaeogeography of the studied region.

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Origin and evolution of the genera Lonsdaleia and Actinocyathus: Insights for the Mississippian palaeogeography from the western Palaeotethys

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