Late Cretaceous/Paleogene West Antarctica Terrestrial Biota and its Intercontinental Affinities

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Reguero, Marcelo (Συγγραφέας), Goin, Francisco (Συγγραφέας), Acosta Hospitaleche, Carolina (Συγγραφέας), Dutra, Tania (Συγγραφέας), Marenssi, Sergio (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Σειρά: SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences,
• Θέματα: Earth sciences.; Paleontology.; Animal ecology.; Earth Sciences.; Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.; Animal Ecology.

One of the most intriguing paleobiogeographical phenomena involving the origins and gradual sundering of Gondwana concerns the close similarities and, in most cases, inferred sister-group relationships of a number of terrestrial and freshwater vertebrate taxa, e.g., dinosaurs, flying birds, mammals,...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction
• West Antarctica (WANT): tectonics and paleogeography
• -East Antarctica (EANT)/West Antarctica (WANT), gondwanic paleobiogeography
• Late Cretaceous/Paleogene stratigraphy of the James Ross Basin
• -Late Cretaceous
• -Paleogene
• South America/West Antarctica: Pacific affinities of the Paleogene Weddellian marine/coastal vertebrates
• -Late Cretaceous/Paleogene marine fossil vertebrates of the James Ross Basin
• -Weddellian Sphenisciformes: systematics, stratigraphy, biogeography and phylogeny
• The terrestrial biotic dimension of WANT
• -West Antarctica paleoflora
• -Late Cretaceous terrestrial vertebrates of the James Ross Basin
• -Paleogene terrestrial vertebrates of the James Ross Basin
• -Paleogene reconstruction of the Cucullaea I (Ypresian) and Submeseta (Priabonian) biotas
• -Correlation of the Cucullaea I terrestrial fauna with Early Paleogene Patagonian faunas
• -WANT terrestrial biota and its intercontinental relationships.