Skaar Ridge Location: Capitanian - Changhsingian, Antarctica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Choanostoma verruculosum n. gen., n. sp. seed/fruit
Klavins, Taylor, Krings et Taylor
Arberiopsida - Arberiales
Glossopteris schopfii n. sp. Pigg 1990
Pigg 1990
Glossopteris skaarensis n. sp. Pigg 1990
Pigg 1990
see common names

Geography
Country:Antarctica State/province:Queen Alexandra
Coordinates: 84.8° South, 163.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:84.4° South, 60.1° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Altitude:8600 feet
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Permian Epoch: Guadalupian - Lopingian
Stage: Capitanian - Changhsingian 10 m.y. bin: Permian 4
*Period:Late/Upper Permian
Key time interval: Capitanian - Changhsingian
Age range of interval: 264.28 - 251.902 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Beacon Formation:Buckley
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Late Permian; Beacon Supergroup
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: chert
Secondary lithology: lithified cherty/siliceous peat
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:permineralized
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:21171
Authorizer:H. Sims, M. Uhen Enterer:H. Lindon, M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:paleobotany
Created:2002-06-19 11:21:14 Last modified:2018-08-01 13:26:58
Access level:the public Released:2002-06-19 11:21:14
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
6485. S. D. Klavins, E. L. Taylor, M. Krings and T. N. Taylor. 2001. An unusual, structurally preserved ovule from the Permian of Antarctica. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 115:107-117 [H. Sims/H. Lindon/J. Cassara]

Secondary references:

66486 K. B. Pigg. 1990. Anatomically preserved Glossopteris foliage from the central Transantarctic Mountains. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 66:105-127 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
63937 K. B. Pigg and T. N. Taylor. 1993. Summary of known occurrences of terrestrial vertebrates from Eocene Strata of Southern California. Anatomically Preserved Glossopteris Stems with Attached Leaves from the Central Transantarctic Mountains, Antarctica 80(5):500-516 [M. Uhen/M. Smith/M. Uhen]