Australia's Caenozoic Drift

Jones, J. G.

doi:10.1038/230237a0

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“…ago Le Pichon, 1968;Weissel & Hayes, 1971). Separation at this time seems to be confirmed by stratigraphic information which shows that a marine transgression appeared along the southern margin of Australia in the late Eocene (Jones, 1971).…”

Section: The Drift Of Australiasupporting

confidence: 56%

Continental drift, paleoclimatology, and the evolution and biogeography of birds

Cracraft

1973

Journal of Zoology

175

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An analysis is presented of the influence that late Mesozoic and Tertiary paleogeography and paleoclimatology may have had on the evolution and biogeography of birds. Many intercontinental connections, especially in the Southern Hemisphere, persisted until the late Cretaceous and/or early Tertiary. Moreover, climates at these times were warmer and more equable than in the late Tertiary, and birds could breed in and disperse through high latitudes. It is concluded that a number of avian orders and families had their origin in Gondwanaland and predrift configurations of the continents were major determinants of their biogeography. Penguins, ratites, galliforms, and suboscines among others are the best examples. Tropical‐subtropical Eurasia was probably the centre of origin for the oscines, and primitive stocks entered the New World mostly through Beringia and mostly prior to the Miocene (but also via a North Atlantic land connection prior to the early Eocene). Continental drift and paleoclimatology have clearly influenced the evolution and biogeography of birds, and future advances in the systematics of the higher taxa will undoubtedly provide further confirmation of this.

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Section: The Drift Of Australiasupporting

confidence: 56%

Continental drift, paleoclimatology, and the evolution and biogeography of birds

Cracraft

1973

Journal of Zoology

175

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“…Recent work of Jones (1971), which, based on paleomagnetic anomalies, postulates the formation of the Tasman Sea in the Eocene, or the more traditional ideas based on paleobotanical (Oliver, 1953) and other evidence, allowing no land links with Australia since the lower Cretaceous, would allow both the Australian and New Zealand living freshwater mussels to have been derived from a single lower Tertiary or Cretaceous ancestral stock. The presence of Hyridella as early as the Cretaceous in Australia and also the hyridelline impression from the New Zealand upper Cretaceous support this idea.…”

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Upper Tertiary freshwater mussel fossils from the Coromandel Volcanic sequence

Hayward

1973

Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand

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Measurements of thirty-seven impressions of upper Miocene and Pliocene Hyridella s.s. from Medland's 'Stream, Great Barrier Island, and Wainora Stream, Thames, suggest that they are members of several highly variable populations of the same species. Their similarity to Australian Tertiary fossils is noted and the effect of this record on ideas of the evolution of New Zealand freshwater mussels is discussed. Previous work on New Zealand freshwater mussels, fossil and recent, is summarised.

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“…Previous workers (Von der Borch et al, 1970;Jones, 1971;Griffiths, 1971;Hocking, 1972;Elliot, 1972;Falvey, 1974) have applied the theories of plate tectonics to explain the stratigraphic development of sedimentary basins that have formed in southern Victoria. The present study concentrates on structural aspects.…”

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Mesozoic‐Cainozoic Tectonics and Igneous Activity: Southeastern Australia

Gunn

1975

Journal of the Geological Society of Australia

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Australia's Caenozoic Drift

Cited by 30 publications

References 11 publications

Continental drift, paleoclimatology, and the evolution and biogeography of birds

Continental drift, paleoclimatology, and the evolution and biogeography of birds

Upper Tertiary freshwater mussel fossils from the Coromandel Volcanic sequence

Mesozoic‐Cainozoic Tectonics and Igneous Activity: Southeastern Australia

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