Do partly outdated palaeontological data produce just a noise? An assessment of the Middle Devonian-Mississippian biodiversity dynamics in central Asia on the basis of Soviet-time compilations

Abrajevitch, A., Van der Voo, R., Bazhenov, M. L., Levashova, N. M. & McCausland, P. J. A., 2008. The role of the Kazakhstan orocline in the late Paleozoic amalgamation of Eurasia. Tectonophysics 455, 61-76.10.1016/j.tecto.2008.05.006Search in Google Scholar

Alroy, J., Aberhan, M., Bottjer, D. J., Foote, M., Fürsich, F. T., Harries, P. J., Hendy, A. J. W., Holland, S. M., Ivany, L. C., Kiessling, W., Kosnik, M. A., Marshall, C. R., McGowan, A. J., Miller, A. I., Olszewski, T. D., Patzkowsky, M. E., Peters, S. E., Viller, L., Wagner, P. J., Bonuso, N., Borkow, P. S., Brenneis, B., Clapham, M. E., Fall, L. M., Ferguson, C. A., Hanson, V. L., Krug, A. Z., Layou, K. M., Leckey, E. H., Nürnberg, S., Powers, C. M., Sessa, J. A., Simpson, C., Tomašových, A. & Visaggi, C. C., 2008. Phanerozoic trends in the global diversity of marine invertebrates. Science 321, 97-100.10.1126/science.1156963Search in Google Scholar

Bambach, R. K., 2006. Phanerozoic biodiversity and mass extinctions. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 34, 127-155.10.1146/annurev.earth.33.092203.122654Search in Google Scholar

Baratov, R. B. (Ed), 1976. Rastchlenenije stratifitsirovannykh i intruzivnykh obrazovanij Tadzhikistana [Subdivision of stratified and intrusive bodies of Tajikistan]. Donish, Dushanbe, 268 pp. (in Russian)Search in Google Scholar

Bazhenov, M. L., Collins, A. Q., Degtyarev, K. E., Levashova, N. M., Mikolaichuk, A. V., Pavlov, V. E. & Van der Voo, R., 2003. Paleozoic northward drift of the North Tien Shan (central Asia) as revealed by Ordovician and Carboniferous palaeomagnetism. Tectonophysics 366, 113-141.10.1016/S0040-1951(03)00075-1Search in Google Scholar

Becker, R. T. & House, M. R., 1994. Kellwasser events and goniatite successions in the Devonian of the Montagne Noire with comments on possible causations. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 16, 45-77.Search in Google Scholar

Becker, R. T., House, M. R., Kirchgasser, W. T. & Playford, P. E., 1991. Sedimentary and faunal changes across the Frasnian/Famennian boundary at the Canning Basin of Western Australia. Historical Biology 5, 183-196.10.1080/10292389109380400Search in Google Scholar

Benton, M. J., 2001. Biodiversity on land and in the sea. Geological Journal 36, 211-230.10.1002/gj.877Search in Google Scholar

Bespalov, V. F. & Kostenko, N. N. (Eds), 1981a. Geologitcheskaja karta Kazakhskoj SSR. Serija turgajsko-mugodzharskaja. Ob'jasnitel'naja zapiska [Geological map of the Kazakh SSR. Turgaj-Mugodzhary Series. Descriptive note]. VSEGEI, Alma-Ata, 228 pp. (in Russian)Search in Google Scholar

Bespalov, V. F. & Kostenko, N. N. (Eds), 1981b. Geologitcheskaja karta Kazakhskoj SSR. Serija juzhnokazakhstanskaja. Ob'jasnitel'naja zapiska [Geological map of the Kazakh SSR. South Kazakhstan Series. Descriptive note]. VSEGEI, Alma-Ata, 324 pp. (in Russian)Search in Google Scholar

Biske, Yu.S. & Seltmann, R. 2010. Paleozoic Tian-Shan as a transitional region between the Rheic and Urals-Turkestan oceans. Gondwana Research 17, 602-613.Search in Google Scholar

Bonelli, R. & Patzkowsky, M. E., 2008. How are global patterns of faunal turnover expressed at regional scales? Evidence from the Upper Mississippian (Chesterian Series), Illinois Basin, USA. Palaios 23, 760-772.10.2110/palo.2008.p08-039rSearch in Google Scholar

Boucot, A. J., 2006. So-called background extinction rate is a sampling artifact. Palaeoworld 15, 127-134.10.1016/j.palwor.2006.03.007Search in Google Scholar

Buggisch, W., 1991. The global Frasnian-Famennian Kellwasser event. Geologische Rundschau 80, 49-72.10.1007/BF01828767Search in Google Scholar

Buslov, M. M., Watanabe, T., Fujiwara, Y., Iwata, K., Smirnova, L. V., Safonova, I. Yu., Semakov, N. N. & Kiryanova, A. P., 2004. Late Paleozoic faults of the Altai region, central Asia: tectonic pattern and model of formation. Journal of Asian Earth Sciences 23, 655-671.10.1016/S1367-9120(03)00131-7Search in Google Scholar

Caplan, M. L. & Bustin, R. M., 1999. Devonian-Carboniferous Hangenberg mass extinction event, widespread organic-rich mudrock, and anoxia: causes and consequences. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 148, 187-208.10.1016/S0031-0182(98)00218-1Search in Google Scholar

Copper, P., 1977. Paleolatitudes in the Devonian of Brazil and the Frasnian-Famennian extinction event. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 21, 165-207.10.1016/0031-0182(77)90020-7Search in Google Scholar

Copper, P., 1986. Frasnian-Famennian mass extinction and cold water oceans. Geology 14, 835-839.10.1130/0091-7613(1986)14<835:FMEACO>2.0.CO;2Search in Google Scholar

Copper, P., 2002. Reef development at the Frasnian/Famennian mass extinction boundary. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 181, 27-65.10.1016/S0031-0182(01)00472-2Search in Google Scholar

Filippova, L. B., Bush, V. A. & Didenko, A. N., 2001. Middle Paleozoic subduction belts: the leading factor in the formation of the central Asian fold-and-thrust belt. Russian Journal of Earth Sciences 3, 405-426.10.2205/2001ES000073Search in Google Scholar

Grunt, T. A. & Dmitriev, V. Yu., 1973. Permskie brakhiopody Pamira [Permian brachiopods of the Pamirs]. Nauka, Moskva, 212 pp. (in Russian).Search in Google Scholar

Hallam, A. & Wignall, P. B., 1997. Mass extinctions and their aftermath. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 320 pp.Search in Google Scholar

House, M. R., 2002. Strength, timing, setting and cause of mid-Paleozoic extinction. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 181, 5-25.10.1016/S0031-0182(01)00471-0Search in Google Scholar

Jablonski, D., 2008. Extinction and the spatial dynamics of biodiversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (Suppl. 1), 11528-11535.10.1073/pnas.0801919105Search in Google Scholar

Kalvoda, J., 2002. Late Devonian-Early Carboniferous foraminiferal fauna: zonations, evolutionary events, paleobiogeography and tectonic implications. Folia Facultatis Scientiarum Universitatis Masarykianae Brunensis, Geologia 39, 1-214.Search in Google Scholar

Krug, A. & Patzkowski, M., 2005. Sampling standardized regional diversity and turnover patterns during the Late Ordovician mass extinction. Geological Society of America, Abstracts with Programs 37 (7), 384.Search in Google Scholar

Krug, A. Z. & Patzkowsky, M. E., 2007. Geographic variation in turnover and recovery from the Late Ordovician mass extinction. Paleobiology 33, 435-454.10.1666/06039.1Search in Google Scholar

McGhee, G. R., 1996. The Late Devonian mass extinction - the Frasnian-Famennian crisis. Columbia University Press, New York, 303 pp.Search in Google Scholar

Morozova, I. P., 1970. Mshanki pozdnej permi [Late Permian bryozoans]. Trudy Paleontologitcheskogo instituta AN SSSR 122, 3-332.Search in Google Scholar

Nalivkin, D. V., Rzhonsnitskaja, M. A. & Markovskij, B. P. (Eds), 1973. Stratigrafija SSSR. Devonskaja sistema. Kniga 1 [Stratigraphy of the USSR. Devonian System. Volume 1]. Nedra, Moskva, 520 pp. (in Russian).Search in Google Scholar

Ogg, J. G., Ogg, G. & Gradstein, F. M., 2008. The concise geologic time scale. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 177 pp.Search in Google Scholar

Orlov, I. V. & Bespalov, V. F. (Eds), 1981. Geologitcheskaja karta Kazakhskoj SSR. Serija Tsentral'no-Kazakhstanskaja. Ob'jasnitel'naja zapiska [Geological map of the Kazakh SSR. Central Kazakhstan Series. Descriptive note]. VSEGEI, Alma-Ata, 247 pp. (in Russian)Search in Google Scholar

Peters, S. E. & Foote, M., 2001. Biodiversity in the Phanerozoic: a reinterpretation. Paleobiology 27, 583-601.10.1666/0094-8373(2001)027<0583:BITPAR>2.0.CO;2Search in Google Scholar

Purdy, E. G., 2008. Comparison of taxonomic diversity, strontium isotope and sea-level patterns. International Journal of Earth Sciences 97, 651-664.10.1007/s00531-007-0177-zSearch in Google Scholar

Racki, G., 2005. Towards understanding Late Devonian global events: few answers, many questions. [In:] D. J. Over, J. R. Morrow & P. B. Wignall (Eds): Understanding Late Devonian and Permian-Triassic biotic and climatic events: towards an integrated approach. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 5-36.10.1016/S0920-5446(05)80002-0Search in Google Scholar

Racki, G., 2009. Wielkie wymierania i ich przyczyny [Great extinctions and their origin]. Kosmos 58, 529-545.Search in Google Scholar

Racki, G., Racka, M., Matyja, H. & Devleeschouwer, X., 2002. The Frasnian/Famennian boundary interval in the South Polish-Moravian shelf basins: integrated event-stratigraphical approach. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 181, 251-297.10.1016/S0031-0182(01)00481-3Search in Google Scholar

Raup, D. W. & Sepkoski, J. J., 1982. Mass extinctions in the marine fossil record. Science 215, 1501-1503.10.1126/science.215.4539.1501Search in Google Scholar

Ruban, D. A., 2005. Mesozoic marine fossil diversity and mass extinctions: an experience with the middle XIX century paleontological data. Revue de Paléobiologie 24, 287-290.Search in Google Scholar

Ruban, D. A. & Van Loon, A. J., 2008. Possible pitfalls in the procedure for paleobiodiversity-dynamics analysis. Geologos 14, 37-50.Search in Google Scholar

Ruban, D. A., Al-Husseini, M. I. & Iwasaki, Y., 2007. Review of Middle East Paleozoic plate tectonics. GeoArabia 12, 35-56.10.2113/geoarabia120335Search in Google Scholar

Scotese, C. R., 2004. A continental drift flipbook. Journal of Geology 112, 729-741.10.1086/424867Search in Google Scholar

Sengör, A. M. C. & Natal'in, B. A., 1996. Paleotectonics of Asia: fragments of a synthesis. [In:] A. Yin & M. Harris (Eds): The tectonic evolution of Asia. Cambridge, University Press, pp. 486-640.Search in Google Scholar

Sepkoski, J. J., 1993. Ten years in the library: new data confirm paleontological patterns. Paleobiology 19, 43-51.10.1017/S0094837300012306Search in Google Scholar

Sepkoski, J. J., 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560.Search in Google Scholar

Sepkoski, J. J., Bambach, R. K., Raup, D. M. & Valentine, J. W., 1981. Phanerozoic marine diversity and fossil record. Nature 293, 435-437.10.1038/293435a0Search in Google Scholar

Stampfli, G. M. & Borel, G. D., 2002. A plate tectonic model for the Paleozoic and Mesozoic constrained by dynamic plate boundaries and restored synthetic oceanic isochrons. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 196, 17-33.10.1016/S0012-821X(01)00588-XSearch in Google Scholar

Torsvik, T. H. & Cocks, L. R. M., 2004. Earth geography from 400 to 250 Ma: a palaeomagnetic, faunal and facies review. Journal of the Geological Society, London 161, 555-572.10.1144/0016-764903-098Search in Google Scholar

Tuljaganov, Kh.T. & Jaskovitch, B. V., 1980. Geologitcheskaja karta Uzberkskoj SSR [Geological map of Uzbek SSR]. Fan, Tashkent, 200 pp. (in Russian).Search in Google Scholar

Veimarn, A. B., Kuzmin, A. V. & Vorontsova, T. N., 1997. Geologitcheskie sobytija v Kazakhstane na rubezhe franskogo i famenskogo vekov i ikh znatchenie v rjadu global'nykh sobytij etogo vremenii [Geological events in Kazakhstan at the boundary of the Frasnian and the Famennian and their significance within the row of events of the pertinent time]. Bulletin of Moscow Society of Naturalists, Geological Series 72 (4), 35-46. (in Russian).Search in Google Scholar

Wall, P. D., Ivany, L. C. & Wilkinson, B. H., 2009. Revisiting Raup: exploring the influence of outcrop area on diversity in light of modern sample standardization techniques. Paleobiology 35, 146-167.10.1666/07069.1Search in Google Scholar

Walliser, O. H., 1996. Global events in the Devonian and Carboniferous. [In:] O. H. Walliser (Ed): Global events and event stratigraphy in the Phanerozoic. Berlin, Springer, pp. 225-250.10.1007/978-3-642-79634-0_11Search in Google Scholar

Wang, K., Orth, K. J., Attrep Jr., M., Chatterton, B. D. E., Hou, H. & Geldsetzer, H. H. J., 1991. Geochemical evidence for a catastrophic biotic event at the Frasnian/ Famennian boundary in south China. Geology 19, 776-779.10.1130/0091-7613(1991)019<0776:GEFACB>2.3.CO;2Search in Google Scholar

Zhamojda, A. I. (Ed), 1968. Geologitcheskoje strojenije SSSR. Vol. 1. Stratigrafija [Geological structure of the USSR. Vol. 1. Stratigraphy]. Nedra, Moskva, 709 pp. (in Russian).Search in Google Scholar