Site KG. 4697, Coal Nunatak, Alexander Island: Late Albian - Cretaceous, Antarctica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Equisetopsida - Araucariaceae
specimens
Cycadopsida - Cycadales
9 %-specimens
unclassified
Ginkgoites sp. leaf Seward 1919
32 %-specimens
Angiospermae - Apiales
34 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Antarctica
Coordinates: 72.1° South, 68.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:63.9° South, 40.8° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Early Cretaceous
Stage: Albian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 4 - Cretaceous 1-8
*Period:Early/Lower Cretaceous - Middle Cretaceous *Epoch:Late/Upper Albian
Key time interval: Late Albian - Cretaceous
Age range of interval: 106.3 - 66 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Fossil Bluff Formation:Neptune Glacier Member:Triton Point
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Secondary lithology: cherty/siliceous siltstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:"floodplain"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:medium
Fragmentation:frequent
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:32471
Authorizer:E. Kowalski Enterer:E. Kowalski
Modifier:E. Kowalski Research group:paleobotany
Created:2003-07-02 14:06:31 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2003-07-02 14:06:31
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
8755. D. J. Cantrill and G. J. Nichols. 1996. Taxonomy and palaeoecology of Early Cretaceous (Late Albian) angiosperm leaves from Alexander Island, Antarctica. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 92(1-2):1-28 [E. Kowalski/E. Kowalski/J. Moreno]