New mammalian and avian records from the late Eocene La Meseta and Submeseta formations of Seymour Island, Antarctica [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 The middle–late Eocene of Antarctica was characterized by dramatic change as the continent became isolated from the other southern landmasses and the Antarctic Circumpolar Current formed.
Sarah N. Davis +7 more
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The Early Origin of the Antarctic Marine Fauna and Its Evolutionary Implications. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 The extensive Late Cretaceous - Early Paleogene sedimentary succession of Seymour Island, N.E. Antarctic Peninsula offers an unparalleled opportunity to examine the evolutionary origins of a modern polar marine fauna.
J Alistair Crame +5 more
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Indigenous agglutinated foraminifera from the Eocene La Meseta Formation, Seymour Island, West Antarctica [PDF]
Polish Polar Research, 2019 Here are reported the first certainly indigenous agglutinated foraminifera known for the Eocene La Meseta Formation on Seymour Island, West Antarctica. The specimens were identified as Textularia sp. and occur in the upper portion of the unit, just below
Victor C.S. Badaró
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At the root of the early penguin neck: a study of the only two cervicodorsal spines recovered from the Eocene of Antarctica [PDF]
Polar Research, 2014 The spinal column of early Antarctic penguins is poorly known, mainly due to the scarcity of articulated vertebrae in the fossil record. One of the most interesting segments of this part of the skeleton is the transitional series located at the root of ...
Piotr Jadwiszczak
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Tafonomía del registro fósil de macromamíferos del Pleistoceno Superior en el nivel 4 de la Cueva de Prado Vargas (Cornejo, Burgos, España) [PDF]
Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia, 2020 Las técnicas de subsistencia en grupos humanos del pasado se investigan en profundidad a través del estudio de las acumulaciones fósiles, de su formación, origen y composición. Los conjuntos faunísticos localizados en los yacimientos arqueológicos pueden
Héctor de la Fuente +3 more
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Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2018 The first record of one of the most common and widespread Paleogene selachians, the sand tiger shark Brachycarcharias, in the Ypresian strata of the La Meseta Formation, Seymour Island, Antarctica, is provided herein.
GIUSEPPE MARRAMÀ +4 more
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Revista Peruana de Biología, 2013 The La Meseta Formation crops out in Seymour/Marambio Island, Weddell Sea, northeast of the Antarctic Peninsula and contains one of the world's most diverse assemblages of Weddellian marine/coastal verte-brates of Early Eocene (Ypresian) age.
Marcelo A. Reguero +2 more
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La itinerancia de la corte de Castilla durante la primera mitad del siglo XV
E-Spania, 2010 Ce travail vise à expliquer les différentes causes qui ont fait du centre de la Meseta le noyau politique et administratif de la couronne de Castille et León.
Francisco de Paula CAÑAS GÁLVEZ
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La reforma de la division provincial en la meseta meridional (1800-1850)
Estudios Geográficos, 1997 La reforma de la división provincial en la Meseta Meridional (1800-1850). La división provincial española actual tiene su origen en el cambio de régimen político que se produjo a lo largo de la primera mitad del siglo XIX. Como resultado de este complejo
Jesús Burgueño
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An enigmatic fossil penguin from the Eocene of Antarctica
Polar Research, 2017 Tarsometatarsi are key skeletal elements in penguin palaeontology. They constitute, among others, type specimens of all 10 widely accepted species of fossil penguins from the Eocene La Meseta Formation on Seymour Island (Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula).
Piotr Jadwiszczak, Thomas Mörs
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