Zealandia’s oldest volutes (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Volutidae) from the early Paleogene of South Island and Chatham Islands: post Gondwana break-up and evolutionary divergence

• Published in: Journal of Paleontology
• Main Author: Stilwell, Jeffrey D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2016
• Subjects: Paleontology; West Antarctica; Pacific; New Zealand; Byrd; Marie Byrd Land; Marwick; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2016.19; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022336016000196

Abstract The isolation of Zealandia in the latest Cretaceous and early Paleogene following the final break-up of Gondwana fostered significant provincialism in molluscan faunas, concomitant with the segmentation of oceanic circulation patterns and changing climate nearing the end of the greenhouse p...