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Phylogenetic and biogeographic analysis of deiphonine trilobites

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Curtis R. Congreve  and
Bruce S. Lieberman
Curtis R. Congreve
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Natural History Museum/Biodiversity Research Center, University of Kansas, 1475 Jayhawk Blvd., 120 Lindley Hall, Lawrence 66045
Bruce S. Lieberman
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Natural History Museum/Biodiversity Research Center, University of Kansas, 1475 Jayhawk Blvd., 120 Lindley Hall, Lawrence 66045
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Abstract

Cladistic parsimony analysis of the subfamily Deiphoninae Raymond, 1913 was conducted to produce a hypothesis of relationship for the group. The genera Deiphon Barrande, 1850 and Onycopyge Woodward, 1880 are found to be monophyletic, while the genus Sphaerocoryphe Angelin, 1854, as it was previously defined, is paraphyletic. A modified Brooks Parsimony Analysis using the phylogenetic hypothesis reveals patterns of biogeography, in particular, vicariance and geodispersal, during the Ordovician-Silurian. The analysis yields three major conclusions about deiphonine biogeography: Eastern Laurentia and Baltica were close enough during the late Ordovician to exchange taxa via sea level rise and fall; chance dispersal occurred between Northwestern Laurentia and Australia; and deiphonine trilobites likely originated in Baltica or Eastern Laurentia.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 84 , Issue 1 , January 2010 , pp. 128 - 136
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