New PDF release: Late Cretaceous/Paleogene West Antarctica Terrestrial Biota

By Marcelo Reguero,Francisco Goin,Carolina Acosta Hospitaleche,Tania Dutra,Sergio Marenssi

some of the most fascinating paleobiogeographical phenomena related to the origins and sluggish sundering of Gondwana matters the shut similarities and, generally, inferred sister-group relationships of a few terrestrial and freshwater vertebrate taxa, e.g., dinosaurs, flying birds, mammals, etc., recovered from uppermost Cretaceous/ Paleogene deposits of West Antarctica, South the US, and NewZealand/Australia.
For a few twenty 5 vast and effective investigations within the box of vertebrate paleontology has been conducted in most up-to-date Cretaceous and Paleogene deposits within the James Ross Basin, northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula (AP), West Antarctica, at the uncovered sequences on James Ross, Vega, Seymour (=Marambio) and Snow Hill islands respectively.
The to be had geological, geophysical and marine faunistic proof exhibits that the peninsular (AP) a part of West Antarctica and the western a part of the top of South the US (Magallanic quarter, southern Chile) have been located very shut within the most recent Cretaceous and early Paleogene favoring the “Overlapping” version of South America-Antarctic Peninsula paleogeographic reconstruction.
Late Cretaceous deposits from Vega, James Ross, Seymour and Snow Hill islands have produced a discrete variety of dinosaur taxa and a couple of complex birds including 4 mosasaur and 3 plesiosaur taxa, and some shark and teleostean taxa.

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