Carboniferous macrofloral biostratigraphy: an overview
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F22%3A10493888" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/22:10493888 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1144/SP512-2020-97" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1144/SP512-2020-97</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/SP512-2020-97" target="_blank" >10.1144/SP512-2020-97</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Carboniferous macrofloral biostratigraphy: an overview
Original language description
In the Carboniferous, terrestrial vegetation became widespread, diverse and abundant. The resulting fossil record has proved to be an effective biostratigraphic tool for intra- and interbasinal correlations. Besides palaeogeographical configurations, Carboniferous plant biostratigraphy is affected by a transition from greenhouse conditions during most of the Mississippian to an icehouse climate in the Pennsylvanian. The greenhouse Mississippian climate resulted in weak provincialism, with a cosmopolitan flora ranging from the tropics to middle latitudes. The global cooling around the Mississippian-Pennsylvanian boundary enhanced development of a latitudinal climatic zonation and related floral provincialism. These changes are expressed in the recognition of distinct realms or kingdoms, where the tropical Amerosinian Realm (or Euramerican and Cathaysian realms) is surrounded by the Angaran and Gondwanan realms occupying middle to high latitudes of the northern and southern hemispheres, respectively. Floristic endemism in the Pennsylvanian precludes development of a global macrofloral biostratigraphy. Instead, each realm or area has its own biostratigraphic scheme. Poorer and less diverse floras of the Gondwanan and Angaran realms resulted in the establishment of relatively low-resolution macrofloral biostratigraphic schemes. Higher-resolution macrofloral zonations exist only in the tropical Amerosinian Realm due to diverse and abundant floras dominated by free-sporing and early seed plants occupying extensive wetlands.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10505 - Geology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-06728S" target="_blank" >GA19-06728S: How precisely can we reconstruct Carboniferous tropical forests? Examples from the Czech Republic and China</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
The Carboniferous Timescale
ISBN
978-1-78620-542-1
Number of pages of the result
51
Pages from-to
813-863
Number of pages of the book
1016
Publisher name
The Geological Society
Place of publication
London
UT code for WoS chapter
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