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Belemnite successions and faunal provinces in the southwest Pacific, and the belemnites of Gondwana
Dinoflagellate zonation allows a reasonably precise correlation of some Jurassic-Cretaceous coleoid-bearing sequences in Indonesia. Papua New Guinea, and New Zealand. Macrofossils provide a precise New Zealand - New Caledonia correlation in the Middle Jurassic, and general correlation allows Australian belemnite-bearing sequences to be compared with those of other regions. Comparisons of Indonesian and Papua New Guinean with New Zealand sequences show that the time-distribution of Belemnopsis is partly disjunct, Hibolithes and Conodicoelites is mostly disjunct, and Dicoelites is completely disjunct. Xiphoteuthids and Belemnitina are known only from New Zealand and New Caledonia; Duvalia and Chalalabelus only from Indonesia; and the Dimitobelidae only from New Zealand, Australia, and Papua New Guinea. New Zealand Middle and Late Jurassic Belemnopsis are morphologically distinct from those of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. New Zealand Hibolithes are a morphologically coherent group different from the more diverse Indonesian and Papua New Guinean members of the genus, and Dicoelites and Conodicoelites of the two regions also differ. The much discussed and widely recognised uhligi-complex is incorrect in concept and has little correlative value. A Jurassic and Early Cretaceous Tethyan Province populated by morphologically similar Hibolithes, and by Duvalia, Dicoelites, and Conodicoelites extended eastward from the Mediterranean region along the coast of Gondwana to at least Papua New Guinea. Within that province Late Jurassic Ethiopian and Indo-Tethyan Subprovinces can be recognised, each based on a distinctive Belemnopsis lineage. A South Pacific Province based on Belemnitina and Belemnopseina extended from southern South America to New Zealand in the Middle and Late Jurassic, and possibly to Papua New Guinea in the Early Cretaceous. The belemnite assemblages of other former Gondwana continents support this division. Although the Tethyan and South Pacific Provinces remained distinct from Middle Jurassic probably to the Early Cretaceous, some trans-Gondwana migration from Kimmeridgian time, mainly from Tethys to the South Pacific, occurred along the developing seaway between Africa-South America and India-Antarctica.
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Canberra Author Challinor, A.B.
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