Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

Physical and environmental drivers of Paleozoic tetrapod dispersal across Pangaea

  • Neil Brocklehurst,
  • Emma M. Dunne,
  • Daniel D. Cashmore,
  • Jӧrg Frӧbisch

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07623-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The late Paleozoic was a time of major transition for tetrapods. Here, Brocklehurst and colleagues analyse the biogeography of Paleozoic tetrapods and find shifts in dispersal and vicariance associated with Carboniferous mountain formation and end-Guadalupian climate variability.