Implications for high latitude gondwanide palaeozoogeographical studies of some new Upper Cretaceous marine ostracod faunas from New Zealand and the Antarctic Peninsula

• Main Author: Dingle, R.V.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Instituto Geologico y Minero de Espana 2009
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Patagonia; New Zealand; Hill Island; Snow Hill Island; Snow Hill; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/21019/; http://revistas.igme.es/index.php/revista_micro/article/viewFile/417/414

Sixty species of Ostracoda have been recovered from Cenomanian, Santonian and Maastrichtian strata in New Zealand, and late Campanian sediments on Snow Hill and James Ross islands in the Antarctic Peninsula. The two main New Zealand sites are in latest Maastrichtian strata, but in contrasting therma...