Oceanic conditions around southern South America and the Antarctic Peninsula have a
major influence on climate patterns in these subcontinents. During the Tertiary, changes in …

A consensus on the biostratigraphic age and depositional environment of the Navidad,
Ranquil, and Lacui formations exposed along the tectonic margin of central Chile has been …

New identifications are listed of Antarctic Paleogene molluscan faunas (López de Bertodano
and Sobral Formations, Seymour Island, Paleocene; La Meseta Formation, Seymour Island …

The most important Cenozoic marine transgression in Patagonia occurred during the late
Oligocene–early Miocene when marine waters of Pacific and Atlantic origin flooded most of …

Abstract The Peruvian Province, from 6° S in Peru to 42° S in Chile, is a highly productive
coastal marine region whose biology and fossil record have long been studied separately …

Mollusks along the Pacific coast of South America provide one of the main exceptions from
the latitudinal diversity gradient of decreasing species numbers toward the poles. From 42° …

Sedimentological and paleontological studies, including foraminifera, ostracodes,
gastropods, and trace fossils, were carried out on Neogene sedimentary successions and …

The 122 Cenozoic molluscan species from Chile and Argentina introduced by d'Orbigny
(1842), Sowerby (1846) and Hupé (1854) are all based on material collected during early …

Cenozoic marine strata occur in the western, eastern, and central parts of the North
Patagonian Andes between∼ 43° S and 44° S. Correlation of these deposits is difficult …

Few fossil fish otolith associations have been described from the Pacific side of the Americas
and, except for a single species (Steindachneria svennielseni), none have been described …