Miocene to Pleistocene transatlantic dispersal of Ceratoconcha coral-dwelling barnacles and North Atlantic island biogeography

• Published in: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
• Main Authors: Baarli, B., Malay, Maria Celia (Machel) D., Santos, Ana, Johnson, Markes E., Silva, Carlos M., Meco, Joaquín, Cachao, Mario, Mayoral, E.
• Other Authors: 6602660202, 57193207994, 8272373100, 7406607334, 7102549912, 6602093969, 6506718349, 6603722330
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: 2416 Paleontología; 251005 Zoología marina; Cirripedia; Hermatypic corals; Macaronesia; Marine circulation; Oceanic islands; Stepping-stones; Stepping Stones; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/36033; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2016.12.046

Coral-dwelling pyrgomatid barnacles (subfamily Ceratoconchinae) were widely dispersed throughout the Paratethys and Mediterranean seas as well as the Atlantic Ocean during the Neogene, but today are limited to the Western Atlantic. Herein, the paleobiogeographic origin and dispersal of the genus Cer...