Sobral Fm., British Antarctic Survey- wood: Santonian - Paleocene, Antarctica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Angiospermae - Oxalidales - Cunoniaceae
Eucryphiaceoxylon n. gen. eucryphioides wood Poole et al. 2001
4 specimens
unclassified
Myrceugenelloxylon antarcticus wood
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Antarctica State/province:Seymour Island
Coordinates: 64.3° South, 56.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:62.3° South, 67.6° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period: Cretaceous - Paleogene Epoch: Late Cretaceous - Paleocene
Stage: Santonian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 6 - Cenozoic 1
Key time interval: Santonian - Paleocene
Age range of interval: 86.3 - 56 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Marambio Formation:Sobral
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:grading,fine,coarse,brown,gray sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:permineralized,replaced with calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:excellent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:34280
Authorizer:E. Kowalski Enterer:E. Kowalski
Modifier:E. Kowalski Research group:paleobotany
Created:2003-08-25 16:21:50 Last modified:2003-08-25 19:21:50
Access level:the public Released:2003-08-25 16:21:50
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
9012. I. Poole, A. M. W. Mennega, and D. J. Cantrill. 2003. Valdivian ecosystems in the Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary of Antarctica: further evidence from myrtaceous and eucryphiaceous fossil wood. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 124:9-27 [E. Kowalski/E. Kowalski/E. Kowalski]