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Late Cretaceous/Paleogene West Antarctica Terrestrial Biota and its Intercontinental Affinities (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
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Late Cretaceous/Paleogene West Antarctica Terrestrial Biota and its Intercontinental Affinities (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences
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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, etc., recovered from
uppermost Cretaceous/ Paleogene deposits of West Antarctica, South
America, and NewZealand/Australia. For some twenty five extensive
and productive investigations in the field of vertebrate
paleontology has been carried out in latest Cretaceous and
Paleogene deposits in the James Ross Basin, northeast of the
Antarctic Peninsula (AP), West Antarctica, on the exposed sequences
on James Ross, Vega, Seymour (=Marambio) and Snow Hill islands
respectively. The available geological, geophysical and marine
faunistic evidence indicates that the peninsular (AP) part of West
Antarctica and the western part of the tip of South America
(Magallanic Region, southern Chile) were positioned very close in
the latest Cretaceous and early Paleogene favoring the
"Overlapping" model of South America-Antarctic Peninsula
paleogeographic reconstruction. Late Cretaceous deposits from Vega,
James Ross, Seymour and Snow Hill islands have produced a discrete
number of dinosaur taxa and a number of advanced birds together
with four mosasaur and three plesiosaur taxa, and a few shark and
teleostean taxa.
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