Carapace Nunatak: Early/Lower Jurassic - Middle Jurassic, Antarctica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Equisetopsida - Araucariaceae
Brachyphyllum informal sp. 1 leaf Brongniart 1828
Pagiophyllum informal sp. 1 leaf Heer 1881
Bennettitales
Otozamites informal sp. 1 leaf Braun 1843
Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Nothodacrium informal sp. 1 Townrow 1967
see common names

Geography
Country:Antarctica
Coordinates: 76.9° South, 159.4° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:60.3° South, 46.1° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Jurassic
*Period:Early/Lower Jurassic - Middle Jurassic
Key time interval:Early/Lower Jurassic - Middle Jurassic
Age range of interval:201.40000 - 161.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: J2 age suggested by Townrow (1967), based on the presence of Tsugaepollenites trilobatus pollen grains "but no definite age can be given". Plumstead (1964) gave a J1 age on presence of some or all of the Carapace Nunatak genera in certain other gondwanan floras
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Genus-level assignments and numbers of species are from the PGAP database. Species names are in the process of being entered.
Metadata
Also known as:PGAP 483
Database number:29345
Authorizer:A. Rees Enterer:A. Rees
Research group:paleobotany
Created:2003-04-02 12:40:47 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2003-04-02 12:40:47
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
8179.PGAP 11J. A. Townrow. 1967. Fossil plants from Allan and Carapace Nunataks, and from the Upper Mill and Shackleton Glaciers, Antarctica. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 10(2):456-473 [A. Rees/A. Rees]