An additional record of a placental mammal (Order Astrapotheria) from the Eocene of West Antarctica

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Author: Hooker, J.J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1992
• Subjects: Geology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Oceanography; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; West Antarctica; Ross Island; Seymour; Seymour Island; Sadler; Antarc*; Antarctic Science; Antarctica; James Ross Island; Tardigrade
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102092000154; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0954102092000154

Recently, fossil land mammals have been recorded in the James Ross Island area, east of the Antarctic Peninsula, from the marine middle-late Eocene strata of Seymour Island. These include two endemic species of polydolopid marsupial: Antarctodolops dailyi Woodburne & Zinsmeister 1984, and Eurydo...