Splendid and Seldom Isolated: The Paleobiogeography of Patagonia
By P. Wilf, N. Cúneo, I. Escapa, D. Pol, M. Woodburne. 2013
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The idea that South America was an island continent over most of the Cenozoic, during which its unusual mammalian faunas evolved in isolation, is outstandingly influential in biogeography. Although large numbers of recent fossil discoveries and related advances require that the original isolation concept be significantly modified, it is still repeated in much current literature. The persistence of the idea inspired us to present here an integrated paleobiogeographic account of mammals, reptiles, and plants from the Jurassic to the Paleogene of Patagonia, which has by far the richest fossil record on the continent. All three groups show distribution patterns that are broadly consistent with South America's long separation history, first from Laurasia by the Late Jurassic, then from Africa and India-Madagascar during the late Early Cretaceous, and finally from Antarctica and Australia during the early-middle Eocene, after which “isolation” finally commenced. We highlight areas of promising future research a...
Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Paleontology
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- New Age Constraints for the Salamanca Formation and Lower Río Chico Group in the Western San Jorge Basin, Patagonia, Argentina: Implications for Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction Recovery and Land Mammal Age Correlations (2014, background): “…adds to the growing evidence for lower extinction at, and more rapid Southern Hemisphere biotic diversifi cation after, the K-Pg extinction compared to the Northern Hemisphere (Case and Woodburne, 1986; Wolfe, 1987; Askin, 1988; Vajda and McLoughlin, 2007; Jiang et al., 2010; Wilf et al., 2013).”