TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tambussi,Claudia P.
AU  - Degrange,Federico
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - South American and Antarctic Continental Cenozoic Birds: Paleobiogeographic Affinities and Disparities 
T2  - SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences,
SN  - 9789400754676
AV  - QE701-760 
U1  - 560 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Dordrecht
PB  - Springer Netherlands, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Earth sciences
KW  - Paleontology
KW  - Evolutionary biology
KW  - Earth Sciences
KW  - Plant Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography
KW  - Evolutionary Biology
N1  - Introduction -- Paleogeograpic background -- Geological settings of the major fossil localities in South America and Antarctica -- The nature of the bird fossil record -- The Paleogene birds of South America -- Eocene birds from Antarctica and their relationships with those of South America -- The Neogene birds of South America -- The dominance of zoophagous birds -- Bioconections of South America and other continents: What is and what is not possible to conclude
N2  - Modern birds (Neornithes) are represented by two big lineages, the Palaeognathae (Tinamiformes + Ratitae) and the Neognathae [Galloanserae + Neoaves (Metaves + Coronoaves)]. Both clades sum approximately 10,000 species of which 60% are Passeriformes (the most diverse clade of terrestrial vertebrates). A comparison between the past and the present reveals a complex and hallmarked evolutionary and biogeographic history which would have begun over 65 million years ago. For South America (SA) this includes: (1) the presence of taxa with uncertain affinities and the absence of Passeriformes during the Paleogene; (2) a progressive and accelerated increase of the species starting at the Neogene (Miocene); (3) important extinct lineages (e.g. Phorusrhacidae, Teratornithidae) that migrate to North America after the rising of the Panamá isthmus; (4) groups with major diversification in the Neogene that survives nowadays represented by scarce species endemic of SA (Cariamidae) or that inhabits mainly in the southern hemisphere (Anhingidae); (5) very diverse living groups with scarce (e.g., Passeriformes) or none (e.g., Apodiformes) fossil record in SA, which stem-groups are registered in Europe. Apparently, the changes in diversity of the south American Neornithes have been the result of successive radiation, biogeographic connections with North America and in a minor scale, some extinctions. The opening of the Drake´s passage and the occurrence of the circumpolar Antarctic flow are not sufficient causes to explain the highly disparity between the weddelians penguins (Sphenisciformes) of Antartica and those of the patagonian Atlantic Ocean
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5467-6
ER  -