Global tectonics and the fossil record
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The theory of plate tectonics implies greatly different continental geographies in the past which can be reconstructed from a variety of geophysical, structural, petrologic, and stratigraphic evidence. Platetectonic processes affect relative sizes, the relative emergence, and the latitudinal and longitudinal patterns of continents. These factors affect the patterns of trophic-resource regimes in shallow marine water and also determine the patterns of provinciality of the shallow-water biota, and these patterns are probably chiefly responsible for the regulation of species diversity in shallow waters. The diversity patterns are partially the products of the adaptive strategies followed by populations in different resource regimes; high diversities correlate with stable regimes and low diversities with fluctuating regimes. The proportions of feeding types vary among types of regime also, resulting in qualitative differences in the faunas. Precam-brian and Cambrian radiations from which the higher invertebrate phyla developed may have been primarily adaptive responses to changes in trophic-resource regimes, brought about by changing land-sea natterns.
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Zaffos et al. (2017) confirmed the view of Valentine and Moores (1972) that plate tectonics regulate biodiversity.
“Using the same line of evidence, Zaffos et al. (2017) confirmed the view of Valentine and Moores (1972) that plate tectonics regulate biodiversity, by using global databases to test an old model developed half a century ago.”
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Self-citationChanging Patterns of Provinciality and Diversity of Fossil Animals in Relation to Plate Tectonics
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A quantitative analysis of some factors affecting carbonate sedimentation in the ocean
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“…and Phanerozoic oceans – for example, by influencing the location of provincial faunas, latitudinal biodiversity gradients, and the tempo and mode of biotic recoveries following mass extinctions (e.g. Valentine and Moores 1972; Whittington and Hughes 1972; Mannion et al. 2014; Saupe et al. 2020).”
BackgroundVertebrates and the Permo-Triassic extinction
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“Valentine and Moores [42] suggested that the changing geographies resulting from plate tectonic processes contributed to the regulation of Phanerozoic faunal diversity in the marine realm.”
BackgroundOrigin and Early Radiation of the Metazoa
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Macrostratigraphy: Insights into Cyclic and Secular Evolution of the Earth-Life System
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“…cause also incorporates elements of long-term tectonics and the role that supercontinent formation and breakup has on connectivity of the biosphere (Valentine & Moores 1970, 1972; Valentine 1971; Zaffos et al. 2017) and on patterns of sedimentation (Ronov et al. 1980; Berry & Wilkinson 1994;…”
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Macroevolution: Large-scale replacements in the history of life
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Palaeobiogeography and the Ordovician and Mesozoic-Cenozoic biotic radiations
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“8.13) combined the schematic representation of the major continental plates and global marine familial diversity curve of Valentine & Moores (1970, 1972) to highlight the correspondence between diversity peaks and plate dispersal.”
BackgroundInfluentialDistinct Responses of Elasmobranchs and Ray-Finned Fishes to Long-Term Global Change
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TEMPORAL BIAS IN EXTINCTIONS AMONG TAXONOMIC CATEGORIES
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Chapter 12 The Pattern of Diversification Among Fishes
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The Earth evolution as a thermal system
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Bedrock geological map predictions for Phanerozoic fossil occurrences
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The history of the biosphere: Equilibrium and non-equilibrium models of global diversity
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Distributions and extinctions of Silurian Bryozoa
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Branching archaeocyaths as ecosystem engineers during the Cambrian radiation
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“…environment available to animals during the early Cambrian, past work largely has focused on an increase in continental shelf area, providing more shallow seafloor for metazoan communities, especially in the tropics (Brasier & Lindsay, 2001; Peters & Gaines, 2012; Valentine & Moores, 1972).”
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THE TECTONO‐STRATIGRAPHIC DEVELOPMENT OF PATAGONIA, AND ITS RELEVANCE TO HYDROCARBON EXPLORATION
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Earth’s interior dynamics drive marine fossil diversity cycles of tens of millions of years
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Diversity and tectonics: predictions from neutral theory
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- Authors
- Valentine, J. W., & Moores, E. M.
- Venue
- The Journal of Geology
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1972-03
- Volume
- 80
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 167-184
- ISSN
- 0022-1376 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5269
- OpenAlex
- W1994293426
- Semantic Scholar
- 269eb09893815068d812c0796f10e57035d1682c
- Cited by
- 184
- References
- 47
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 19 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 3 · 2013: 4
- FWCI
- 17.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Journal of Geology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Geology › Geological and Geophysical Studies
- Keywords
- plate tectonics, continental reconstruction, paleogeography, species diversity, adaptation strategies, feeding type, Cambrian explosion, fossil record
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