Also known as Antarctic peninsula region
Where: Antarctic peninsula, Antarctica (69.5° S, 65.0° W: paleocoordinates 73.9° S, 47.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Cretaceous to Early/Lower Cretaceous (145.0 - 66.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: original sporopollenin
Primary reference: M. E. Dettmann. 1989. Antarctica: Cretaceous cradle of austral temperate rainforests?. In J. A. Crame (ed.), Origins and Evolution of the Antarctic Biota 47:89-105 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo/P. Santamarina]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 172746: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 20.08.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Lycopodiopsida | |
Retitriletes indet. Pierce 1961 clubmoss | |
Marchantiopsida | |
Triporoletes reticulatus Playford 1971 | |
Angiospermae | |
Nothofagidites senectus Dettmann and Playford 1968 | |
Tricolpites reticulatus Couper 1953 | |
Beaupreaidites indet. PotoniƩ 1960 | |
Peninsulapollis indet. Dettmann and Jarzen 1988 | |
Ilexpollenites indet. Thiergart 1937 | |
Clavatipollenites hughesii Kemp 1968 | |
Podocarpidites ellipticus Cookson 1947 podocarp
Lygistepollenites indet. Harris 1965 podocarp | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Trichotomosulcites subgranulatus Couper 1953 | |
Clavifera triplex Bolkhovitina 1966 | |
Cyatheacidites annulatus Cookson 1947 | |
Nodosisporites indet., Appendicisporites indet., Cicatricosisporites hughesii, Cicatricosisporites ludbrookiae, Cicatricosisporites australiensis
Nodosisporites indet. Dettmann and Clifford 1992
Appendicisporites indet. Weyland and Greifeld 1953
Cicatricosisporites hughesii Dettmann 1963
Cicatricosisporites ludbrookiae Dettmann et al. 1987
Cicatricosisporites australiensis PotoniƩ 1956 | |
Crybelosporites striatus Dettmann 1963 | |
Equisetopsida | |