Revision of Eocene Antarctic carpet sharks (Elasmobranchii, Orectolobiformes) from Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology
• Main Authors: Engelbrecht, Andrea, Mörs, Thomas, Reguero, Marcelo A., Kriwet, Jürgen
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Article; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Seymour; Seymour Island; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5544119/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28785171; https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2016.1266048

Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula, was once called the ‘Rosetta Stone’ of Southern Hemisphere palaeobiology, because this small island provides the most complete and richly fossiliferous Palaeogene sequence in Antarctica. Among fossil marine vertebrate remains, chondrichthyans seemingly were domin...