Large-bodied suspension feeders (planktivores), which include the most massive animals to
have ever lived, are conspicuously absent from Mesozoic marine environments. The only …

Three lineages of cartilaginous fishes have independently evolved filter feeding
(Lamniformes: Megachasma and Cetorhinus, Orectolobiformes: Rhincodon, and Mobulidae …

The Eocene of Seymour Island contains the only association of Cenozoic plants and land
vertebrates known from anywhere in Antarctica and lies at about latitude 63° south. The late …

Two biogeographical units are generally recognized in the present shelf area of Argentina:
the Magellanian and Argentinian Provinces. The two provinces differ in their fossil record …

The four, evolutionarily independent, lineages of suspension feeding elasmobranchs have
two types of branchial filters. The first is a robust, flattened filter pad akin to a colander (eg …

Lanternfishes currently represent one of the dominant groups of mesopelagic fishes in terms
of abundance, biomass, and diversity. Their otolith record dominates pelagic sediments …

Skeletal remains of penguins from the Eocene La Meseta Formation (Seymour Is− land,
Antarctica) constitute the only extensive fossil record of Antarctic Sphenisciformes. No …

Diverse pollen and spore assemblages, spanning the Late Eocene preglacial–glacial
transition, have been recovered from Ocean Drilling Program cores from Prydz Bay, East …

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 …

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DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS A New Archaic Basking Shark (Lamniformes …