Fremouw Formation Fremouw Peak Central Transantartic Mountains, Antartica: Early/Lower Triassic - Middle Triassic, Antarctica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Polypodiopsida - Gleicheniales - Matoniaceae
Dictyophyllidites mortonii microspore Playford and Dettmann 1965
Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Platysaccus sp. microspore Naumova 1954
unclassified
Protohaploxypinus cf. microcorpus microspore
Sphenopsida
Calamospora sp. microspore Schopf et al.
unclassified
Cycadopites nitidus microspore de Jersey 1964
Retusotriletes nigritellus microspore
Lycopodiopsida - Selaginellales - Selaginellaceae
Neoraistrickia sp. microspore Potonié 1956
unclassified
Alisporites sp. microspore Daugherty 1941
Alisporites cf. parvus microspore Thiergart and Frantz 1962
Alisporites cf. australis microspore De Jersey and Hamilton 1967
Aratrisporites spp. microspore
Playfordiaspora cancellosa microspore Maheshwari 1975
Lundbladispora sp. microspore Balme 1963
see common names

Geography
Country:Antarctica
Coordinates: 84.0° South, 165.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:76.9° South, 81.1° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Triassic
*Period:Early/Lower Triassic - Middle Triassic
Key time interval:Early/Lower Triassic - Middle Triassic
Age range of interval:251.90200 - 237.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Fremouw
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Secondary lithology: mudstone
Lithology description: sandstones and mudstones, with minor amounts of shale, carbonaceous debris and silicified peat A variety of anatomically preserved plants are present in the silicified peat.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with other
Size of fossils:microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:chemical,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:31341
Authorizer:C. Looy Enterer:W. Puijk
Modifier:W. Puijk Research group:paleobotany
Created:2003-05-08 04:48:58 Last modified:2003-07-18 18:01:39
Access level:the public Released:2003-05-08 04:48:58
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
8471. M. J. Farabee, E. L. Taylor, and T.N. Taylor. 1990. Correlation of Permian and Triassic palynomorph assemblages from the central Transantartic Mountains, Antartica. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 65:257-265 [C. Looy/W. Puijk/W. Puijk]