[HTML][HTML] 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 …

Bathymetric distributions of notothenioid fishes

JT Eastman - Polar Biology, 2017 - Springer
There has been no comprehensive study of the bathymetry of notothenioid fishes. Therefore,
I analyzed minimum and maximum depths and depth ranges for 128 of 142 species that …

Nitrogen isotopic analysis of carbonate-bound organic matter in modern and fossil fish otoliths

JA Lueders-Dumont, XT Wang, OP Jensen… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2018 - Elsevier
The nitrogen isotopic composition (δ 15 N) of otolith-bound organic matter (OM) is a
potential source of information on dietary history of bony fishes. In contrast to the δ 15 N of …

The rise to dominance of lanternfishes (Teleostei: Myctophidae) in the oceanic ecosystems: a paleontological perspective

W Schwarzhans, G Carnevale - Paleobiology, 2021 - cambridge.org
Lanternfishes currently represent one of the dominant groups of mesopelagic fishes in terms
of abundance, biomass, and diversity. Their otolith record dominates pelagic sediments …

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 …

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 …

Fish otoliths from the late Maastrichtian Kemp Clay (Texas, USA) and the early Danian Clayton Formation (Arkansas, USA) and an assessment of extinction and …

W Schwarzhans, GL Stringer - Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e …, 2020 - riviste.unimi.it
Otolith assemblages have rarely been studied across the K-Pg boundary. The late
Maastrichtian Kemp Clay of northeastern Texas and the Fox Hills Formation of North Dakota …

An analysis of maximum body size and designation of size categories for notothenioid fishes

JT Eastman - Polar Biology, 2019 - Springer
There has been no comprehensive study of body size in notothenioid fishes. Therefore I
evaluated maximum total length (TL) as an axis of the evolutionary radiation. Lengths are …

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 …

First fossilized skin of a giant penguin from the Eocene of Antarctica

C Acosta Hospitaleche, M De Los Reyes, S Santillana… - Lethaia, 2020 - idunn.no
An articulated wing belonging to Palaeeudyptes gunnari containing mineralized skin was
found in Lutetian (middle Eocene) sediments from Seymour Island, Antarctica. It shows the …