Vestfjella: Artinskian, Antarctica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Dictyopteridiopsida
Gangamopteris informal sp. 1 leaf McCoy 1875
Arberiopsida - Arberiales
Vertebraria informal sp. 1 root Royle 1839
Glossopteris informal sp. 1 leaf Brongniart 1828
see common names

Geography
Country:Antarctica
Coordinates: 73.4° South, 13.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:70.2° South, 31.2° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Permian Epoch:Cisuralian
Stage:Artinskian 10 m.y. bin:Permian 2
*Period:Early/Lower Permian
Key time interval:Artinskian
Age range of interval:290.10000 - 283.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: Age from Langford (1992)
Taxonomic list comments:List from p. 540. 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 13410
Database number:29365
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:

8070.PGAP 1221A. Hjelle and T. S. Winsnes. 1972. The sedimentary and volcanic sequence of Vestfjella, Dronning Maud Land. In R.J. Adie (ed.), Antarctic Geology and Geophysics 539-546 [A. Rees/A. Rees/O. Alfaro]