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 …

Neoselachians and Chimaeriformes (Chondrichthyes) from the latest Cretaceous–Paleogene of Sierra Baguales, southernmost Chile. Chronostratigraphic …

RA Otero, JL Oyarzún, S Soto-Acuña… - Journal of South …, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper discusses a well-represented fossil record of cartilaginous fishes
(Chondrichthyes) from southern South America. The recovered samples allow the …

A giant elasmosaurid (Sauropterygia; Plesiosauria) from Antarctica: new information on elasmosaurid body size diversity and aristonectine evolutionary scenarios

JP O'gorman, S Santillana, R Otero, M Reguero - Cretaceous Research, 2019 - Elsevier
Aristonectines show a highly derived morphology among elasmosaurid plesiosaurs,
including some species with large body size. A new postcranial skeleton is described from …

Stratigraphy and vertebrate paleoecology of Upper Cretaceous–? lowest Paleogene strata on Vega Island, Antarctica

EM Roberts, MC Lamanna, JA Clarke, J Meng… - Palaeogeography …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Sandwich Bluff Member of the López de
Bertodano Formation is well exposed on Vega Island in the James Ross Basin off the …

Before and after the K/Pg extinction in West Antarctica: New marine fish records from Marambio (Seymour) Island

AL Cione, S Santillana, S Gouiric-Cavalli… - Cretaceous …, 2018 - Elsevier
An ichthyofauna recovered from the López de Bertodano Formation at Units 9 (uppermost
Maastrichtian) and 10 (lowermost Danian) and the Sobral Formation (Danian), in Marambio …

Cretaceous Antarctic plesiosaurs: stratigraphy, systematics and paleobiogeography

JP O'Gorman, R Otero, M Reguero… - Advances in Polar …, 2019 - library.arcticportal.org
The last twenty million years (Maastrichtian–Santonian) of Southern Hemisphere plesiosaur
history is especially well recorded in the Weddellian Province (Patagonia; Western …

New data on one of the first plesiosaur (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) skeletons recovered from Antarctica, with comments on the dorsal and sacral regions of …

JP O'Gorman, F Aspromonte… - … : An Australasian Journal …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Elasmosaurids are among the most frequently recorded marine reptile fossils from the
Campanian–Maastrichtian strata of Antarctica. Here, we describe one of the earliest …

Additions to the diversity of elasmosaurid plesiosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica

RA Otero, S Soto-Acuña, AO Vargas… - Gondwana …, 2014 - Elsevier
Three specimens of elasmosaurid plesiosaurs (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from Upper
Cretaceous beds of Antarctica are described here. These include postcranial remains of a …

A new mosasaurine specimen (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica with comments on the Weddellian diversity of Mosasaurinae

JP O'Gorman, P Bona, JI Canale, DE Tineo… - Alcheringa: An …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Mosasaurs were globally distributed throughout the Cretaceous oceans, including those
surrounding Antarctica. A mosasaur humerus (IAA-Pv 819) from upper Maastrichtian beds of …

New chondrichthyans from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian–Maastrichtian) of Seymour and James Ross islands, Antarctica

RA Otero, CS Gutstein, A Vargas… - Journal of …, 2014 - cambridge.org
We present new records of chondrichthyans recovered from strata of Maastrichtian age of
the López de Bertodano Formation, Seymour (= Marambio) Island, and from levels of latest …