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Review of the Pre-Pliocene Penguins of New Zealand. Bulletin of the AMNH ; V. 144, Article 5
Author: A Review of the Pre-Pliocene Penguins of New Zealand
Author: George Gaylord SimpsonPublisher:
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Category : Paleontology
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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A Review of the Pre-pliocene Penguins of New Zeland
Author: George Gaylord SimpsonPublisher:
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Pages : 0
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Fossil Penguins. Bulletin of the AMNH ; V. 87, Article 1
Author: Avian Fossils from the Miocene and Pliocene of Nebraska. Bulletin of the AMNH ; V. 48, Article 12
Author: Early Tertiary Penguins of New Zealand
Author: New Zealand Geological SurveyPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 66
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Research on penguins in New Zealand
Author: Late Cretaceous/Paleogene West Antarctica Terrestrial Biota and its Intercontinental Affinities
Author: Marcelo RegueroPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400754914
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
One of the most intriguing paleobiogeographical phenomena involving the origins and gradual sundering of Gondwana concerns the close similarities and, in most cases, inferred sister-group relationships of a number of terrestrial and freshwater vertebrate taxa, e.g., dinosaurs, flying birds, mammals, etc., recovered from uppermost Cretaceous/ Paleogene deposits of West Antarctica, South America, and NewZealand/Australia. For some twenty five extensive and productive investigations in the field of vertebrate paleontology has been carried out in latest Cretaceous and Paleogene deposits in the James Ross Basin, northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula (AP), West Antarctica, on the exposed sequences on James Ross, Vega, Seymour (=Marambio) and Snow Hill islands respectively. The available geological, geophysical and marine faunistic evidence indicates that the peninsular (AP) part of West Antarctica and the western part of the tip of South America (Magallanic Region, southern Chile) were positioned very close in the latest Cretaceous and early Paleogene favoring the “Overlapping” model of South America-Antarctic Peninsula paleogeographic reconstruction. Late Cretaceous deposits from Vega, James Ross, Seymour and Snow Hill islands have produced a discrete number of dinosaur taxa and a number of advanced birds together with four mosasaur and three plesiosaur taxa, and a few shark and teleostean taxa.
American Megafaunal Extinctions at the End of the Pleistocene
Author: Gary HaynesPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402087934
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The volume contains summaries of facts, theories, and unsolved problems pertaining to the unexplained extinction of dozens of genera of mostly large terrestrial mammals, which occurred ca. 13,000 calendar years ago in North America and about 1,000 years later in South America. Another equally mysterious wave of extinctions affected large Caribbean islands around 5,000 years ago. The coupling of these extinctions with the earliest appearance of human beings has led to the suggestion that foraging humans are to blame, although major climatic shifts were also taking place in the Americas during some of the extinctions. The last published volume with similar (but not identical) themes -- Extinctions in Near Time -- appeared in 1999; since then a great deal of innovative, exciting new research has been done but has not yet been compiled and summarized. Different chapters in this volume provide in-depth resumés of the chronology of the extinctions in North and South America, the possible insights into animal ecology provided by studies of stable isotopes and anatomical/physiological characteristics such as growth increments in mammoth and mastodont tusks, the clues from taphonomic research about large-mammal biology, the applications of dating methods to the extinctions debate, and archeological controversies concerning human hunting of large mammals.
World Atlas of Biodiversity
Author: Brian GroombridgePublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520236684
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Global biological diversity, ecosystem diversity.