Formation of the Isthmus of Panama

dc.contributor.author O’Dea, Aaron
dc.contributor.author Lessios, Harilaos
dc.contributor.author Coates, Anthony
dc.contributor.author Eytan, Ron I.
dc.contributor.author Restrepo-Moreno, Sergio A.
dc.contributor.author Cione, Alberto L.
dc.contributor.author Collins, Laurel S.
dc.contributor.author de Queiroz, Alan
dc.contributor.author Farris, David W.
dc.contributor.author Norris, Richard D.
dc.contributor.author Stallard, Robert
dc.contributor.author Woodburne, Michael
dc.contributor.author Aguilera, Orangel
dc.contributor.author Aubry, Marie-Pierre
dc.contributor.author Berggren, William A.
dc.contributor.author Budd, Ann F.
dc.contributor.author Cozzuol, Mario A.
dc.contributor.author Coppard, Simon E.
dc.contributor.author Duque-Caro, Hermann
dc.contributor.author Finnegan, Seth
dc.contributor.author Gasparini, Germán M.
dc.contributor.author Grossman, Ethan L.
dc.contributor.author Johnson, Kenneth G.
dc.contributor.author Keigwin, Lloyd D.
dc.contributor.author Knowlton, Nancy
dc.contributor.author Leigh, Egbert G.
dc.contributor.author Leonard-Pingel, Jill S.
dc.contributor.author Marko, Peter B.
dc.contributor.author Pyenson, Nicholas
dc.contributor.author Rachello-Dolmen, Paola G.
dc.contributor.author Soibelzon, Esteban
dc.contributor.author Soibelzon, Leopoldo
dc.contributor.author Todd, Jonathan A.
dc.contributor.author Vermeij, Geerat J.
dc.contributor.author Jackson, Jeremy B. C.
dc.date.accessioned 2016-08-22T19:02:35Z
dc.date.available 2016-08-22T19:02:35Z
dc.date.issued 2016-08-17
dc.description © The Author(s), 2016. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. The definitive version was published in Science Advances 2 (2016): e1600883, doi:10.1126/sciadv.1600883. en_US
dc.description.abstract The formation of the Isthmus of Panama stands as one of the greatest natural events of the Cenozoic, driving profound biotic transformations on land and in the oceans. Some recent studies suggest that the Isthmus formed many millions of years earlier than the widely recognized age of approximately 3 million years ago (Ma), a result that if true would revolutionize our understanding of environmental, ecological, and evolutionary change across the Americas. To bring clarity to the question of when the Isthmus of Panama formed, we provide an exhaustive review and reanalysis of geological, paleontological, and molecular records. These independent lines of evidence converge upon a cohesive narrative of gradually emerging land and constricting seaways, with formation of the Isthmus of Panama sensu stricto around 2.8 Ma. The evidence used to support an older isthmus is inconclusive, and we caution against the uncritical acceptance of an isthmus before the Pliocene. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship This study was supported by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute to A.O., J.B.C.J., N.K., and H.A.L.; the NSF (EAR 1325683) to A.O., P.G.R.-D., and E.L.G.; the National System of Investigators to A.O.; the Secretaría Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (Panamá) to A.O., H.A.L., and S.E.C.; the U.S. Geological Survey to R.F.S.; and the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Argentina) to A.L.C., G.M.G., E.S., and L.S. en_US
dc.identifier.citation Science Advances 2 (2016): e1600883 en_US
dc.identifier.doi 10.1126/sciadv.1600883
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/1912/8262
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dc.publisher American Association for the Advancement of Science en_US
dc.relation.uri https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1600883
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dc.title Formation of the Isthmus of Panama en_US
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