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1 September 2009 The Cretaceous and Paleocene Pleurotomariid (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) Fauna of Seymour Island, Antarctica
M.G. Harasewych, Anton Oleinik, William Zinsmeister
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Abstract

Leptomaria antipodensis and Leptomaria hickmanae are described from the Upper Cretaceous [Maastrichtian] Lopez de Bertodano Formation, Seymour Island, and represent the first Mesozoic records of the family Pleurotomariidae from Antarctica. Leptomaria stillwelli, L. seymourensis, Conotomaria sobralensis and C. bayeri, from the Paleocene [Danian], Sobral Formation, Seymour Island, are described as new. Leptomaria larseniana (Wilckens, 1911) new combination, also from the Sobral Formation, is redescribed based on better-preserved material. The limited diversity of the pleurotomariid fauna of Seymour Island is more similar to that of the Late Cretaceous faunas of Australia and New Zealand in terms of the number of genera and species, than to the older, more diverse faunas of South America, southern India, or northwestern Madagascar, supporting the status of the Weddelian Province as a distinct biogeographic unit. The increase in the species richness of this fauna during the Danian may be due to the final fragmentation of Gondwana during this period.

M.G. Harasewych, Anton Oleinik, and William Zinsmeister "The Cretaceous and Paleocene Pleurotomariid (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda) Fauna of Seymour Island, Antarctica," Journal of Paleontology 83(5), 750-766, (1 September 2009). https://doi.org/10.1666/09-004.1
Accepted: 1 May 2009; Published: 1 September 2009
KEYWORDS
Antarctica
Maastrichtian
Paleocene
Pleurotomariidae
Seymour Island
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