Phylogenetics and biogeography of two new species of paromomyid plesiadapiforms from a unique, High Arctic ecosystem of Eocene Canada

• Main Author: Miller, Kristen
• Other Authors: Beard, K Christopher, Eberle, Jaelyn, Matsunaga, Kelly
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Kansas 2021
• Subjects: Paleontology; Systematic biology; Biology; Biogeography; Ellesmere Island; Mammalogy; Plesiadapiformes; Primates; Arctic; Canada; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Eureka; Eureka Sound; Arctic Archipelago
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1808/35182; http://dissertations.umi.com/ku:17736

The Margaret formation of the Eureka Sound Group in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago samples a unique, warm temperate ecosystem with a polar light regime that dates to the early Eocene epoch ~ 53 Ma. Previous paleontological expeditions into this region have yielded a wide array of vertebrate taxa in...