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Evolutionary Rates of Jurassic Ammonites in Relation to Sea-level Fluctuations

¹ Departamento de Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Universidad de Granada, 18071- Granada, Spain
² Facultad de Ciencias del Mar, Universidad de Cádiz, 11510- Puerto Real (Cádiz), Spain
³ Institut de Géologie et Paléontologie, BFSH-2, Université de Lausanne, CH-1015 Switzerland

An analysis is presented of the diversity and faunal turnover of Jurassic ammonites related to transgressive/regressive events. The data set contained 400 genera and 1548 species belonging to 67 ammonite zones covering the entire Jurassic System. These data were used in the construction of faunal turnover curves and ammonite diversities, that correlate with sea-level fluctuation curves. Twenty-four events of ammonite faunal turnover are analyzed throughout the Jurassic. The most important took place at the Sinemurian-Carixian boundary, latest Carixian-Middle Domerian, Domerian-Toarcian boundary, latest Middle Toarcian-Late Toarcian, Toarcian-Aalenian boundary, latest Aalenian-earliest Bajocian, latest Early Bajocian-earliest Late Bajocian, Early Bathonian-Middle Bathonian boundary, latest Middle Bathonian-earliest Late Bathonian, latest Bathonian-Early Callovian, earliest Early Oxfordian-Middle Oxfordian, earliest Late Oxfordian-latest Oxfordian, latest Early Kimmeridgian, Late Kimmeridgian, middle Early Tithonian and Early Tithonian-Late Tithonian boundary. More than 75 percent of these turnovers correlate with regressive-transgressive cycles in the Exxon, and/or Hallam's sea-level curves. In most cases, the extinction events coincide with regressive intervals, whereas origination and radiation events are related to transgressive cycles. The turnovers frequently coincide with major or minor discontinuities in the Subbetic basin (Betic Cordillera).

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