THE SOUTHERNMOST OCCURRENCE OF BRACHYCARCHARIAS (LAMNIFORMES, ODONTASPIDIDAE) FROM THE EOCENE OF ANTARCTICA PROVIDES NEW INFORMATION ABOUT THE PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY AND PALEOBIOLOGY OF PALEOGENE SAND TIGER SHARKS ...

• Main Authors: MARRAMÀ, GIUSEPPE, ENGELBRECHT, ANDREA, MÖRS, THOMAS, REGUERO, MARCELO A., KRIWET, JÜRGEN
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia (Research In Paleontology and Stratigraphy) 2018
• Subjects: Chondrichthyes; Elasmobranchii; Ypresian; La Meseta Formation; biotic turnovers; Seymour; Seymour Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.13130/2039-4942/9985; https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/RIPS/article/view/9985

The first record of one of the most common and widespread Paleogene selachians, the sand tiger shark Brachycarcharias, in the Ypresian strata of the La Meseta Formation, Seymour Island, Antarctica, is provided herein. Selachians from the early Eocene horizons of this deposit represent the southernmo...