Palaeobiogeographic significance of Jurassic and Cretaceous Western Australian ostracod faunas

The palaeobiogeographic distribution of Western Australian ostracods during the Jurassic and Cretaceous illustrates how Gondwana broke apart to form the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and how the new ostracod genera from here migrated into the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Western Pacific Ocean and the Western Indian Ocean.