Cenozoic Biogeographic History of the Eurythermal Genus Retrotapes, New Genus (Subfamily Tapetinae) from Southern South America and Antarctica

• Main Author: Del Río, Claudia
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1997
• Subjects: Antarctica; Argentina; Biogeography; Chile; Neoaustral; New genus; Retrotapes; Tapetinae; Tertiary; Argentina (fish); Bivalvia; Eurhomalea; Marcia; Veneridae; Antarctic; Argentine; The Antarctic; Venus; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00281344_v110_n3_p77_DelRio; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00281344_v110_n3_p77_DelRio

Retrotapes, new genus, comprises a group of Neoaustral bivalves that appeared in the southern circumpolar regions by the Eocene and have since been confined to the high latitudes of the southern hemisphere. Its presence in the Tertiary strata of Antarctica and southern South America reflects an acti...