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Upper Silurian and Devonian heterostracan pteraspidomorphs (Vertebrata) from Severnaya Zemlya (Russia): a preliminary report with biogeographical and biostratigraphical implications

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  • 1. U.S.T.L., Sciences de la Terre, Laboratoire de Paléontologie et Paléogéographie du Paléozoïque, UMR 8014 et FR 1818 du CNRS, F-59655 Villeneuve d'Ascq cedex (France) Alain.Blieck@univ-lille1.fr
  • 2. Institute of Geology of Lithuania, S˘ev˘cenkos g.13, LT-2600 Vilnius (Lithuania) vtalimaa@takas.lt
  • 3. Tallinn Technical University, Geological Institute, Estonia pst. 7, EE-10143 Tallinn (Estonia) kurik@gi.ee Severnaya Zemlya (Kara-Tajmyr palaeocontinent) is a key-zone in understanding the palaeogeographical relationships of the Old Red Sandstone Continent and Siberia in Mid-Palaeozoic times. Its Upper Silurian- Devonian sedimentary sequence bears a rich fauna of heterostracans which allows biostratigraphical correlation to be made with Spitsbergen (on the Barentsian palaeocontinent), but also with the Canadian Arctic (on the Old Red Sandstone Continent) and Central Tajmyr-NW Siberia (Siberian palaeocontinent). This fauna is composed of various assemblages from the Ludlow (Upper Silurian) to the Frasnian (Upper Devonian), with the richest assemblages in the upper Lochkovian, and a gap in the Emsian (Lower Devonian).

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Blieck, Alain R. M., Karatajūtē-Talimaa, Valentina N., Mark-Kurik, Elga (2002): Upper Silurian and Devonian heterostracan pteraspidomorphs (Vertebrata) from Severnaya Zemlya (Russia): a preliminary report with biogeographical and biostratigraphical implications. Geodiversitas 24 (4): 805-820, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4665025

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