Emmanuel Gheerbrant, Jean‐Claude Rage,
... been distinct from those of both Gondwana and Laurasia as early as the earliest Cretaceous, perhaps the ... the context of a dual world (Gondwana vs. Laurasia). Geological and paleobiogeographical data show that Africa was ... South America, and perhaps India), but mainly to Laurasia. Interchanges with Gondwana were rare and mainly "out-of-Africa" dispersals, whereas interchanges with Laurasia were numerous and bidirectional, although mainly from Laurasia to Africa. Despite these intermittent connections, isolation resulted ...
Tópico(s): Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
2006 - Elsevier BV | Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
José Ignacio Canudo, José Luis Barco, Xabier Pereda Suberbiola, José Ignacio Ruiz-Omeñaca, Leonardo Salgado, Fidel Torcida Fernández‐Baldor, José Miguel Gasulla,
... record on the continents of the northern hemisphere (Laurasia) or in the southern continents (Gondwana) have been ... origin. The occasional presence of these taxa outside Laurasia or Gondwana respectively has frequently been explained in ... the result of a point of communication between Laurasia and western Gondwana or at least of sporadic ... The archipelago that formed the Iberian plate was Laurasia’s closest continental mass to Gondwana during the ... that a communication was established between Gondwana and Laurasia at the end of the Barremian. For the ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2009 - EDP Sciences | BSGF – Earth Sciences Bulletin
... Emergent, long-lived Gondwanaland vs. submergent, short-lived Laurasia: Supercontinental and Pan-African heat imparts long-term ... Emergent, long-lived Gondwanaland vs. submergent, short-lived Laurasia: Supercontinental and Pan-African heat imparts long-term ... was buoyant, as indicated by nonmarine facies, and Laurasia was depressed, as indicated by marine facies. As a supercontinent, Gondwanaland lasted much longer than Laurasia and was hotter from internal heat. Moreover, the ... mafic underplating, and most of Gondwanaland (but not Laurasia) was affected by terminal Pan-African (0.5 ...
Tópico(s): Geological and Geochemical Analysis
1995 - Geological Society of America | Geology
SUMMARY Three major continents, Angaraland, Laurasia and Gondwanaland, and a number of microcontinents straddled almost all the climatic zones of the world during the Upper Palaeozoic. The ... establish the chronological sequence of continental collisions against Laurasia leading up to the assembly of the Pangaea supercontinent in the Permian. Laurasia was the dominant equatorial landmass made up of ... Carboniferous. Collisions between the major continents of Angaraland, Laurasia and Gondwanaland took place in the Permian and ...
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
1981 - Zoological Society of London | Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society
... the very early Cretaceous period. At that time,Laurasia was still a completed continent and Gondwana land ... of Saururaceae may concentrated in south region of Laurasia。The ancestral saururaceae is probalbly similar to the ... bract.During the Cretaceous the climate of southern Laurasia was humid subtropical in general.The primitive genus ... completed its disinte-gration and migration in Southern Laurasia,and was belonging to the Late Cretaceous and Early Terliary palaeotropical flora in Laurasia Tethys segregated the way passing to Gondwana。Since ...
Tópico(s): Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies
1995 - Science Press | Acta Botanica Yunnanica
Adán Pérez‐García, Miguel Telles Antunes, Fernando Barroso-Barcenilla, Pedro M. Callapez, Manuel Segura, António Ferreira Soares, Angélica Torices,
... few occurrences in the lower Upper Cretaceous of Laurasia. A single member of Bothremydidae had so far ... and is the oldest member of Bothremydidae in Laurasia. Algorachelus peregrinus is confirmed here to be a ... its spread. The two oldest known bothremydids from Laurasia, the European A. peregrinus and the North American ... so far known dispersal event of Pleurodira in Laurasia, which was performed by an African lineage of ...
Tópico(s): Ichthyology and Marine Biology
2017 - Elsevier BV | Cretaceous Research
... cratons were accreted to the southern margin of Laurasia. Following the Late Caledonian paroxysm, the Devonian and ... arc-trench system parallelling the southern margin of Laurasia, the accretion of additional Gondwana-derived continental fragments, ... Pacific type. The Visean collision of Gondwana with Laurasia marked the onset of the Himalayan-type Variscan ... reorientation of the convergence direction between Gondwana and Laurasia induced the development of a complex wrench-fault ...
Tópico(s): Geological Formations and Processes Exploration
1986 - Elsevier BV | Tectonophysics
V. Bachtadse, Rainer Zänglein, Jennifer Tait, H. Soffel,
... data, result in major overlaps between Gondwana and Laurasia when choosing a Wegener type configuration (Pangaea A1 ... is shifted towards the east with respect to Laurasia (Pangaea B and Pangaea C). Although these configurations ... large uncertainties in rock age. The overlap of Laurasia and Gondwana, therefore, may be an artefact. Here ... new data, results in a major overlap with Laurasia when a Pangaea A2 configuration is chosen, whilst ...
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
2002 - Elsevier BV | Journal of African Earth Sciences
Martín D. Ezcurra, Federico L. Agnolín,
... by a distinction between the northern territories of Laurasia and the southern landmasses of Gondwana. The repeated discovery of Gondwanan lineages in Laurasia has led to the proposal of alternative scenarios ... model explains the presence of Gondwanan taxa in Laurasia and the absence of Laurasian forms in the ... fauna followed by a relatively short-term Gondwana-Laurasia dichotomy. The analysis recovered evidence for a biogeographical ...
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
2011 - Oxford University Press | Systematic Biology
... of some remaining Pangean connections between Gondwana and Laurasia extending into the Early Cretaceous, strongly support a ... still some remaining Pangean connections between Gondwana and Laurasia; 2) after this, there was a relatively rapid ... the remaining continental Pangean connections between Gondwana and Laurasia to this latter super-continent; 3) the final separation between Laurasia and Gondwana, and posteriorly between the regions constituting ...
Tópico(s): Fish Ecology and Management Studies
2004 - Brill | Animal Biology
... far been described from the pre-Santonian of Laurasia, where the continental and coastal Cretaceous faunas of ... oldest evidence of the occurrence of Pleurodira in Laurasia, and is the oldest genus of the abundant ... the first dispersals of Pleurodira from Gondwana to Laurasia occurred much earlier than previously thought.http://zoobank. ...
Tópico(s): Turtle Biology and Conservation
2016 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Systematic Palaeontology
... of the Hercynian orogeny convergence between Gondwana and Laurasia changed from a southeast – northwest direction to an ... Jurassic preceded the Middle Jurassic crustal separation between Laurasia and Africa. This marked the onset of the ... with a counterclockwise rotation of Africa relative to Laurasia, inducing the closure of the Dinaric – Hellenic ocean ...
Tópico(s): Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
1988 - Elsevier BV | Developments in geotectonics
Hidenori Nishihara, Shigenori Maruyama, Norihiro Okada,
... Boreotheria, which originated in Africa, South America, and Laurasia, respectively. Despite this advancement, the order of divergence ... time frame (division of Pangea into Gondwana and Laurasia at 148-138 Ma and division of Gondwana ... continents leading to isolated Africa, South America, and Laurasia caused nearly concomitant divergence of the ancient placental ...
Tópico(s): Genetic diversity and population structure
2009 - National Academy of Sciences | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Giovanni Muttoni, Dennis V. Kent, Eduardo Garzanti, Peter Brack, Niels Abrahamsen, Maurizio Gaetani,
... the east by V3000 km with respect to Laurasia on the basis of paleomagnetic data.New paleomagnetic ... integrated with published coeval data from Gondwana and Laurasia, again only from igneous rocks, fully support a ... to one hemisphere from Gondwana as well as Laurasia that the effects of a zonal octupole field ... a right-lateral shear couple between Gondwana and Laurasia during the Permian.Transcurrent plate boundaries associated with ...
Tópico(s): Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
2003 - Elsevier BV | Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Jianguo Li, David J. Batten, Yiyong Zhang,
... palaeoenvironmental evolution of the southern continental margin of Laurasia in Xizang (Tibet) towards the end of the ... plate collided with, and continued to push against, Laurasia plate. Two spore and pollen zones and three ...
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
2008 - Elsevier BV | Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
... Ocean/Palaeotethys between north-eastern Gondwana and southern Laurasia, prior to the Late Carboniferous. It indicates a ... faunal interaction between north-eastern Gondwana and southern Laurasia during the Devonian and Early Carboniferous remaining to ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
2010 - Elsevier BV | Palaeoworld
... which became the nucleus for West Gondwana); and Laurasia (which contained North America, Greenland, Baltica, and Siberia). ... eastern and western parts. Various plates accreted to Laurasia during the Paleozoic, and collision of Gondwana with Laurasia created Pangea at ~0.3 Ga.
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
1996 - University of Chicago Press | The Journal of Geology
James D. Gardner, Randall L. Nydam,
... mid-Mesozoic break-up of the former supercontinent Laurasia, have yielded the lion’s share of fossils ... Mesozoic and Cenozoic lissamphibian and squamate assemblages of Laurasia
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
2013 - Springer Nature | Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments
... composite terrane (WCT) with the western margin of Laurasia coincided with the construction of the Chitina magmatic ... belt, does not require a sediment source from Laurasia. The provenance record is compatible with deposition of ...
Tópico(s): Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
2018 - NRC Research Press | Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
... are not uncommon at Mesozoic continental sites in Laurasia, especially during the Upper Cretaceous. Thus, the record ... No terrestrial stem turtle had been described in Laurasia after the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event. Thus, ...
Tópico(s): Turtle Biology and Conservation
2020 - Nature Portfolio | Scientific Reports
Pedro Correia, J. Brendan Murphy,
... located about 3000 km farther east relative to Laurasia compared its location in Pangaea-A. Here, we ... configuration for the relative locations of Gondwana and Laurasia in the late Palaeozoic, negating the possibility of ...
Tópico(s): Geological formations and processes
2020 - Nature Portfolio | Scientific Reports
... into a single supercontinent (the correlative theory of Laurasia supposes a similar connection of northern hemisphere continents), ... to the break-up of Pangaea (Gondwanaland plus Laurasia) and the drift of the great continental blocks ...
Tópico(s): Morphological variations and asymmetry
1971 - University of Chicago Press | The Quarterly Review of Biology
A. A. Meyerhoff, Curt Teichert,
... water supply. If the supercontinents of Gondwanaland and Laurasia ever existed, Proterozoic and Paleozoic glaciations would not ... suggests that currently popular reconstructions of Gondwanaland and Laurasia are wrong. Coal accumulations took place in areas ...
Tópico(s): Geological formations and processes
1971 - University of Chicago Press | The Journal of Geology
... in common with eosentomoids; they are distributed in Laurasia with extreme development in the Far East. The ... to further development by the break‐up in Laurasia and Gondwana, specializing in attaining new characters in Laurasia, in reduction in Gondwana.
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
1978 - Taylor & Francis | Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment
... lines were widely present. Separation of Gondwana and Laurasia by the Permian Tethys Sea and subsequent widespread ... and drier climates of the Permo-Triassic Laurentian-Laurasia favoured drought-adapted or niche-specific groups creating ...
Tópico(s): Plant Diversity and Evolution
1982 - Oxford University Press | Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
... north of the Indian fragment to collide with Laurasia at about 55 m.y.a. and of ... fragment to collide with the southeastern extremity of Laurasia at only about 15 m.y.a., the ... reached modern Malesia from one of three sources, Laurasia, Gondwanaland via Australia, or Gondwanaland via India followed ...
Tópico(s): Geological and Geophysical Studies
1982 - Missouri Botanical Garden | Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden
... rotating Gondwana anticlockwise by about 35° relative to Laurasia, placing Africa beneath Europe, and South America beneath ... by a 3500‐km minimum dextral megashear between Laurasia and Gondwana during the late Permian and Triassic ( ...
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
1981 - American Geophysical Union | Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
Michael K. Brett-Surman, Gregory S. Paul,
... the same genus of theropod dinosaur from both Laurasia and Gondwanaland at the end of the Cretaceous, ...
Tópico(s): Amphibian and Reptile Biology
1985 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology
Sankar Chatterjee, Nicholas Hotton,
... the supercontinent Pangea has been disassociated into independent Laurasia and Gondwana, separated by a vast oceanic Tethys. ... Tertiary vertebrates show closest similarities to those of Laurasia, indicating that India was never far from Asia. ...
Tópico(s): Geological and Geochemical Analysis
1986 - Pergamon Press | Journal of Asian Earth Sciences
... a free land communication persisted between Gondwana and Laurasia, and provinciality is not demonstrated. A Gondwanan pattern ... probably linked the still southern Indian Plate to Laurasia. It is uncertain whether this route reached Madagascar. ... continents vanished, whereas exchanges between Gondwanan areas and Laurasia sometimes occurred.
Tópico(s): Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
1988 - Geological Society of London | Geological Society London Special Publications