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 …

The Axes of Divergence for the Evolutionary Radiation of Notothenioid Fishes in Antarctica

JT Eastman - Diversity, 2024 - mdpi.com
Notothenioid fishes, a perciform group, radiated in the cold shelf waters around the Antarctic
continent and the 110 species dominate fish diversity, abundance, and biomass at levels …

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 …

A new large Late Cretaceous lamniform shark from North America, with comments on the taxonomy, paleoecology, and evolution of the genus Cretodus

K Shimada, MJ Everhart - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
We describe a partial skeleton of the Late Cretaceous shark, Cretodus, collected from the
Blue Hill Shale (middle Turonian) in north-central Kansas, USA It consists of 134 …

Integrated palaeontological investigation of a new mid-late Bartonian fish fauna from Călata area, Transylvanian Basin, Romania

N Trif, V Arghiuș, JC Seitz, VA Codrea, R Bălc… - Historical …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The Călata site (north-west of Transilvanian Basin, Romania) includes the Ciuleni Member
of the middle Eocene-age Mortănușa Formation, a marine deposit in an outer, open marine …

The Priabonian fish from Leghia (Transylvanian Basin, Romania)

N Trif, VA Codrea, G Pleș, M Bordeianu - Historical Biology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A fish fauna originating from a limestone level of the Palaeogene sedimentary
succession exposed on the northwestern side of the Transylvanian Basin (Gilău …

Historical biogeography of smoothhound sharks (genus Mustelus) of Southern Africa reveals multiple dispersal events from the Northern Hemisphere

SN Maduna, KL Hull, ED Farrell… - Systematics and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Members of the smoothhound shark genus Mustelus display a widespread distribution
pattern across ocean basins with a high degree of sub-regional endemism. The patterns and …

The fossil record of durophagous predation in the James Ross Basin over the last 125 million years

EM Harper, JA Crame… - Advances in Polar …, 2019 - library.arcticportal.org
We review the evidence for predation of shelly benthic prey over 125 million years of earth
history in the James Ross Basin, Antarctica (~ 65° S). Although poor in the Early Cretaceous …

Middle Eocene chondrichthyan fauna from Antarctic Peninsula housed in the Museo de La Plata, Argentina

M Charnelli, S Gouiric Cavalli… - Advances in Polar …, 2024 - sedici.unlp.edu.ar
In recent years, the taxonomy and systematics of the cartilaginous fish taxa from the Eocene
La Meseta Formation of Seymour (Marambio) Island, Antarctica have been extensively …

Deep-sea elasmobranch fauna with the first descriptions of genera Arynchobatis and Pseudoraja from the Miocene Yatsuo group in Toyama, central Japan

K Nishimatsu, A Ujihara - Historical Biology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Herein, we describe 22 deep-sea elasmobranch species of the early to middle Miocene
Yatsuo Group found in central Japan. The deep-sea elasmobranch fauna of the Yatsuo …