Late Cretaceous/Paleogene West Antarctica Terrestrial Biota and its Intercontinental Affinities

• Main Authors: Reguero, Marcelo, Marenssi, Sergio, Dutra, Tania, Acosta Hospitaleche, Carolina, Goin, Francisco
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2013
• Subjects: Animal ecology; Paleontology; Geography; QE701; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; West Antarctica; Seymour; Marambio; Snow Hill; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2078/ebook:38240; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5491-1

One of the most intriguing paleobiogeographical phenomena involving the origins and gradual sundering of Gondwana concerns the close similarities and, in most cases, inferred sister-group relationships of a number of terrestrial and freshwater vertebrate taxa, e.g., dinosaurs, flying birds, mammals,...