Zealandia’s oldest volutes (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Volutidae) from the early Paleogene of South Island and Chatham Islands: post Gondwana break-up and evolutionary divergence
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...
Published in: | Journal of Paleontology |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
2016
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2016.19 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0022336016000196 |