Late Cretaceous/Paleogene West Antarctica Terrestrial Biota and its Intercontinental Affinities
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,...
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Format: | Electronic |
Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2013.
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Series: | SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences,
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Online Access: | https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5491-1 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.