Early Pliocene tracer of North Atlantic and South Pacific sea surface currents: Janthina typica (Bronn, 1860) (Mollusca: Gastropoda)

• Main Authors: Meco, Joaquín, Lomoschitz, Alejandro, Betancort-Lozano, Juan Francisco
• Other Authors: 6602093969, 6507150380, 6602503518
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: 2416 Paleontología; Pelagic mollusk; Warm water species; Pliocene climate; Placas tectónicas; Efecto Coriolis; Fósiles; New Zealand; Pacific; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/21648

Janthina typica is an extinct, rare, floating species of gastropod from the early Pliocene whose fossils have an unusual geographic distribution, appearing in the eastern North Atlantic archipelagos (Canary, Azores, Madeira and Selvagen Islands), Morocco, and Pacific (New Zealand, Australia and Japa...