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THE OCEANS 605<br />

Kimeridgian: Aulacostephanus and Rasenia; these like Cardioceras<br />

reached as far south as the Rhone valley as rarities, and may (unlike<br />

Cardioceras) have migrated into Mexico.<br />

Portlandian and Lower Volgian: the Dorsoplanitinae and Virgatitinae.<br />

Upper Volgian (Purbeckian?): the Craspeditidae.<br />

The distribution of these genera and families presupposes free intercommunication<br />

by way of an Arctic Ocean and therefore confirms the<br />

general conclusion that that ocean is primordial.<br />

SUMMARY<br />

The evidence from Jurassic stratigraphy requires the existence in Jurassic<br />

times of the North Pacific, North Atlantic, Scandic and Arctic Oceans;<br />

it requires at least a barrier across the Indian Ocean from Madagascar to<br />

Ceylon and peninsular India; it has nothing to contribute to the problem<br />

of the existence or non-existence of the South Atlantic.<br />

Differences between contemporary faunas on opposite sides of the<br />

Atlantic, in the Gulf of Mexico region and the western Mediterranean<br />

region, are incompatible with the idea that these areas were much closer<br />

together in the Jurassic period.<br />

http://jurassic.ru/

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