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THE statement by Burrett1 that there is “no evidence for the existence of a Tethyan Ocean in the Palaeozoic” is incorrect. I refer to a symposium on Aspects of Tethyan Biogeography published by the Systematics Association in 1967 (ref. 2). In that volume one of the first articles was by Sdzuy, entitled The Tethys in Cambrian Time. The Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists for October 1972 contains an article entitled Permian Tethys and the Indian Ocean3. The concept of a Palaeozoic Tethys is so well established in geological literature that a list of references would probably include several thousand titles.
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Kamen-Kaye, M., Bull. Amer. Assoc. Petrol. Geol., 50, 1984 (1972).
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TEICHERT, C. Palaeozoic Tethyan Ocean. Nature 244, 91 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/244091a0
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