A tetrapod fauna from within the Devonian Antarctic Circle

Gess, Robert W; Ahlberg, Per Erik Ahlberg

Title: A tetrapod fauna from within the Devonian Antarctic Circle
Title: Supplementary materials for 'A tetrapod fauna from within the Devonian Antarctic Circle'
Creator: Gess, Robert W
Creator: Ahlberg, Per Erik Ahlberg
Date Issued: 2009
Date: 2009
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/72690
Identifier: vital:30100
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaq1645
Identifier: https://www.sciencemag.org/content/360/6393/1120/suppl/DC1
Description: Until now, all known fossils of tetrapods (limbed vertebrates with digits) and near-tetrapods (such as Elpistostege, Tiktaalik, and Panderichthys) from the Devonian period have come from localities in tropical to subtropical paleolatitudes. Most are from Laurussia, a continent incorporating Europe, Greenland, and North America, with only one body fossil and one footprint locality from Australia representing the southern supercontinent Gondwana. Here we describe two previously unknown tetrapods from the Late Devonian (late Famennian) Gondwana locality of Waterloo Farm in South Africa, then located within the Antarctic Circle, which demonstrate that Devonian tetrapods were not restricted to warm environments and suggest that they may have been global in distribution.
Format: 5 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Science
Relation: Gess, R. and Ahlberg, P.E., 2018. A tetrapod fauna from within the Devonian Antarctic Circle. Science, 360(6393), pp.1120-1124.
Relation: Science volume 360 number 6393 1120 1124 June 2018 0036-8075
Rights: Science Access
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