First fossil frog from Antarctica: implications for Eocene high latitude climate conditions and Gondwanan cosmopolitanism of Australobatrachia

T Mörs, M Reguero, D Vasilyan - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Cenozoic ectothermic continental tetrapods (amphibians and reptiles) have not been
documented previously from Antarctica, in contrast to all other continents. Here we report a …

Antarctic paleontological heritage: late Cretaceous Paleogene vertebrates from Seymour (Marambio) Island, Antarctic Peninsula

M Reguero - Advances in Polar Science, 2019 - library.arcticportal.org
Antarctica has significant environmental, scientific, historic, and intrinsic values, all of which
are worth protecting into the future. This continent has a discrete number of places of …

[PDF][PDF] Diversity and renewal of tropical elasmobranchs around the Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum (MECO) in North Africa: New data from the lagoonal deposits of …

S Adnet, L Marivaux, H Cappetta… - Palaeontologia …, 2020 - hal.umontpellier.fr
Bulk sampling of an indurated glauconic sandstone horizon from Djebel el Kébar, Central
Tunisia, yielded a moderately diversified assemblage of elasmobranchs (sharks and rays) …

Probing the Ecology and Climate of the Eocene Southern Ocean With Sand Tiger Sharks Striatolamia macrota

SL Kim, SS Zeichner, AS Colman… - Paleoceanography …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Many explanations for Eocene climate change focus on the Southern Ocean—where
tectonics influenced oceanic gateways, ocean circulation reduced heat transport, and …

[HTML][HTML] Reassessment of historical sections from the Paleogene marine margin of the Congo Basin reveals an almost complete absence of Danian deposits

F Solé, C Noiret, D Desmares, S Adnet, L Taverne… - Geoscience …, 2019 - Elsevier
The early Paleogene is critical for understanding global biodiversity patterns in modern
ecosystems. During this interval, Southern Hemisphere continents were largely …

The southernmost occurrence of Brachycarcharias (Lamniformes, Odontaspididae) from the Eocene of Antarctica provides new information about the …

G Marrama, A Engelbrecht, T Mörs… - Rivista Italiana di …, 2018 - diva-portal.org
The first record of one of the most common and widespread Paleogene selachians, the sand
tiger shark Brachycarcharias, in the Ypresian strata of the La Meseta Formation, Seymour …

New carcharhiniform sharks (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from the early to middle Eocene of Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula

A Engelbrecht, T Mörs, MA Reguero… - Journal of vertebrate …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula, is known for its wealth of fossil remains.
This island provides one of the richest fossiliferous Paleogene sequences in the world …

New sharks and other chondrichthyans from the latest Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) of North America

TA Gates, E Gorscak, PJ Makovicky - Journal of Paleontology, 2019 - cambridge.org
Cretaceous aquatic ecosystems were amazingly diverse, containing most clades of extant
aquatic vertebrates as well as an array of sharks and rays not present today. Here we report …

Notonuphar antarctica, an extinct water lily (Nymphaeales) from the Eocene of Antarctica

EM Friis, A Iglesias, MA Reguero, T Mörs - Plant Systematics and Evolution, 2017 - Springer
A new genus and species, Notonuphar antarctica, is described from the Eocene of Seymour
(Marambio) Island, the Antarctic Peninsula and assigned to the Nymphaeales based on well …

[HTML][HTML] Skates and rays (Elasmobranchii, Batomorphii) from the Eocene La Meseta and Submeseta formations, Seymour Island, Antarctica

A Engelbrecht, T Mörs, MA Reguero, J Kriwet - Historical biology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Eocene deposits of the famous La Meseta Formation of Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula,
yielded the most diverse Paleogene fossil elasmobranch association of the Southern …