Cenozoic High Latitude Heterochroneity of Southern Hemisphere Marine Faunas

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Zinsmeister, William J., Feldmann, Rodney M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1984
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic; Antarctica; Seymour Island
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.224.4646.281; https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.224.4646.281

Discovery of 11 genera, in five classes within the Mollusca, Echinodermata, and Arthropoda in upper Eocene rocks on Seymour Island, Antarctica, previously known only from Late Cenozoic in mid-latitudes, suggests that the high latitude region of the Southern Hemisphere acted as a center of origin and...