Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoid faunas from northwestern Guangxi (South China)
Taxonomy and Biochronology

Arnaud Brayard (Author), Hugo Bucher (Author)

9781405186667, Wiley

Paperback / softback, published 5 September 2008

184 pages
27.7 x 21.1 x 1 cm, 0.454 kg

The highly fossiliferous succession of Smithian (Early Triassic) ammonoids from northwestern Guangxi (South China) provides a key equatorial record, at the boundary between Tethys and Panthalassa. After the end-Permian extinction, ammonoids reached their first major diversity peak during Smithian times, coupled with a marked contrast in their latitudinal distribution. This monograph contains a part of the fundamental taxonomic and biostratigraphic data of a more comprehensive research project addressing patterns of recovery in time and space of Early Triassic ammonoids and other marine clades, in conjunction with global paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic changes.

Subject Areas: Archaeology [HD]