Paleogeography and biogeography of the Gondwanan final breakup and its terrestrial vertebrates: New insights from southern South America and the "double Noah's Ark" Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Journal of South American Earth Sciences
• Main Authors: Reguero, Marcelo Alfredo, Goin, Francisco Javier
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: ANTARCTICA; SOUTH AMERICA; MAMMALS; BIOGEOGRAPHY; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Indian; Magallanes; New Zealand; Patagonia; The Antarctic; Thurston; Thurston Island; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/156866

The Mesozoic plate tectonic and paleogeographic history of the final break up of West Gondwana had a profound effect on the distribution of terrestrial vertebrates in South America. As the supercontinent fragmented into a series of large landmasses (South America, Antarctica, Australia, New Zealand,...