A reassessment of Antarctic polydolopid marsupials (Middle Eocene, La Meseta Formation)

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Chornogubsky, Laura, Goin, Francisco J., Reguero, Marcelo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2009
• Subjects: Geology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Oceanography; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; West Antarctica; Seymour; Marambio; Antarc*; Antarctic Science; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102009001916; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0954102009001916

Abstract New polydolopid marsupial specimens have been recovered from the La Meseta Formation, a late early Eocene to probably early Oligocene unit cropping out in the northern third of Seymour (Marambio) Island, at some 100 km off the northern Antarctic Peninsula. Our review of the original materia...