Where: Antarctica (62.2° S, 58.5° W: paleocoordinates 60.1° S, 68.8° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Zamek Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified, muddy mudstone and lithified, sandy sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
• Other: Palynomorphs
Preservation: adpression, soft parts, original sporopollenin, original cellulose
Collection methods: bulk, chemical, mechanical, hydrochloric, hydroflouric,
• All type and figured material is housed in the Museum of Paleontology, Antarctic Section, Vale do Rio dos Sinos University (UNISINOS): Repository
Primary reference: T. L. Dutra and D. J. Batten. 2000. Upper Cretaceous floras of King George Island, West Antarctica, and their palaeoenvironmental and phytogeographic implications. Cretaceous Research (21)181-209 [C. Jaramillo/P. Santamarina]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 150274: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Patricio Santamarina on 05.09.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
? Knightia andreae Dusén 1908 herring | |
Phyllites | |
Phyllites "sp." Brongniart 1822 | |
Equisetopsida | |
Araucaria "sp." de Jussieu 1789 | |
Angiospermae | |
Nothofagus cretacea, Nothofagus zastawniakiae, Nothofagus glaucifolia, Nothofagus ("sp.") aff. ulmifolia, aff. Nothofagoxylon "sp."
Nothofagus ("sp.") aff. ulmifolia Oliver 1950
aff. Nothofagoxylon "sp." Gothan 1908 | |
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aff. Elaeocarpus "sp." Linnaeus 1753 | |
Araliaephyllum ("sp.") aff. quinquelobatus Cantrill 1996 | |
aff. Mespilodaphne longifolia Engelhardt 1864 laurel | |
Dicotyledoneae | |
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Podocarpus "sp." L'Heritier and Persoon 1807 podocarp | |
Magnoliopsida | |
Dicotylophyllum "sp. 2", Dicotylophyllum "sp. 3", Dicotylophyllum "sp. 1", Dicotylophyllum "sp. 10", Dicotylophyllum "sp. 8", Dicotylophyllum "sp. 9", Dicotylophyllum "sp.", Dicotylophyllum elegans
Dicotylophyllum "sp. 3" Saporta 1894 =Goeppertia spp. of Engelhardt, 1891, and Berry, 1928; =Notaphoebe in Berry, 1938; =Phoebe Engelhardt, 1891
Dicotylophyllum "sp. 1" Saporta 1894
Dicotylophyllum elegans Li 1994 | |
Pteridopsida | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Cladophlebis "sp." Brongniart 1849 | |
? Dryopteris seymouriensis Dusén 1908 | |
Pteropsida | |
? Pecopteris "sp." Brongniart 1822 | |
Pentaneurum | |
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Sterculiaephyllum australis | |
Sterculiaephyllum australis Dutra and Batten 2000 sp. nov. (including aff. ?Sterculia washburnii Berry, 1928)
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Magnoliidaephyllum birkenmajeri | |
Magnoliidaephyllum birkenmajeri Zastawniak 1994 |