The privileged location of Santa Maria Island (Azores archipelago) in the middle of the North
Atlantic makes the fossiliferous outcrops on this island of utmost importance to gain a better …

In order to understand the complex evolutionary processes and patterns that explain current
island biodiversity, large datasets and long-term analysis are required. The Last Interglacial …

Massive fossil shell accumulations require particular conditions to be formed and may
provide valuable insights into the sedimentary environments favouring such concentrations …

The Azores Archipelago is a group of isolated islands located in the North Atlantic Ocean.
One of these oceanic islands–Santa Maria–exhibits marine fossiliferous sediments of late …

The family Strombidae is one of the twenty-three families and subfamilies of gastropods
associated with tropical environmental conditions, and therefore useful as a biogeographical …

Oceanic islands–such as the Azores in the mid‐North Atlantic–are periodically exposed to
large storms that often remobilize and transport marine sediments along coastlines, and into …

The bowl-shaped trace fossil Piscichnus waitemata appears in Pliocene sandstones from
Santa Maria Island (Azores Archipelago), extensively excavated during a stage of island …

The trace fossil Macaronichnus segregatis is interpreted to be produced by opheliid
polychaetes that feed on epigranular microbes and organic matter commonly abundant in …

In the relatively young archipelago of the Azores, fossiliferous deposits are restricted to the
oldest island (Santa Maria), mainly from late Miocene–early Pliocene deposits, and a few …

Santa Maria is the oldest island of the Azores Archipelago and is remarkably rich in exposed
marine fossiliferous sediments and submarine volcanic sequences. This chapter …