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Journal of the Geological Society; 1993; v. 150; issue.6; p. 1039-1042;
DOI: 10.1144/gsjgs.150.6.1039
© 1993 Geological Society of London

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A reassessment of the early Ordovician 'Celtic' brachiopod province

L. R. M. COCKS & W. S. McKERROW

Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UKDepartment of Earth Sciences, Oxford University, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PR, UK

In the early Ordovician, Laurentia, Baltica and Gondwana each had endemic shallow-water cratonic faunas dominated by trilobites and brachiopods as well as some more widespread faunas around the continental margins. The latter include the Toquima-Table Head faunas around Laurentia and the 'Celtic' brachiopod faunas which form the main topic of this paper. The Celtic faunas were thought to have been distributed along and offshore of only the Gondwana side of the Iapetus Ocean. However, fresh analysis of the Celtic occurrences reveals a wider distribution of these brachiopods, ranging from a substantial volcanic island arc (the Bronson Hill-Tetagouche-Lushs Bight Island Arc) close to Laurentia to sites firmly attributable to Avalonia and possibly also Baltica. Thus, unlike most contemporary trilobite faunas, these brachiopods (which are not a homogeneous fauna) had wider latitudinal tolerance than previously supposed, and the term 'Celtic Province’ can be abandoned.




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