Falla Formation Mount Falla Central Transantartic Mountains, Antartica: Late/Upper Triassic, Antarctica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Anapiculatisporis cooksonae microspore
Asseretospora gyrata microspore
Cadargasporites sp. microspore
Polypodiisporonites ipsviciensis microspore
Pteruchipollenites thomasii microspore
Craterisporites rotundus microspore
Circulisporites parvus microspore de Jersey 1962
Lycopodiopsida - Selaginellales - Selaginellaceae
Neoraistrickia taylorii microspore Playford and Dettmann 1965
unclassified
Alisporites australis microspore De Jersey and Hamilton 1967
Alisporites parvus microspore Thiergart and Frantz 1962
Distriatites insculptus microspore
Protohaploxypinus sp. microspore Samoilovitch 1953
Protopinus stabilis microspore
Converrucosisporites cameronii microspore
Polycingulatisporites crenulatus microspore Playford and Dettmann 1965
Lycopsida
Uvaesporites verrucosus microspore
unclassified
Apiculatisporites globosus microspore
replaced by Apiculatisporis
Pteridopsida
Deltoidospora directa microspore
Osmundacidites wellmannii microspore Reyre 1973
Polypodiopsida - Gleicheniales - Matoniaceae
Dictyophyllidites mortonii microspore Playford and Dettmann 1965
Polypodiopsida
Verrucosisporites carnarvonensis microspore
Polypodiopsida - Polypodiaceae
Laevigatosporites sp. microspore Ibrahim 1933
unclassified
Punctatisporites leighensis microspore
Punctatisporites walkomii microspore
Sphenopsida
Calamospora tener microspore
unclassified
Cycadopites spp. microspore
Acanthotriletes bradiensis microspore
Ginkgoopsida - Caytoniales
Vitreisporites pallidus microspore Nilsson 1958
Angiospermae - Buxales
Tuberculatosporites cf. aberdarensis microspore
Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Platysaccus queenslandii microspore
unclassified
Entylissa subgranulosa microspore
Bryopsida
Stereisporites spp. microspore
unclassified
Playfordiaspora cancellosa microspore Maheshwari 1975
see common names

Geography
Country:Antarctica
Coordinates: 84.0° South, 165.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:61.6° South, 46.5° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Late/Upper Triassic
*Period:Late/Upper Triassic
Key time interval:Late/Upper Triassic
Age range of interval:237.00000 - 201.30000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Fremouw
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: coal
Secondary lithology: peat
Lithology description: Coal, shaley coal, silicified peat and siltsones
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original cellulose,replaced with other
Size of fossils:microfossils
Spatial resolution:parautochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils,some microfossils
Collection methods:chemical,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:31342
Authorizer:C. Looy Enterer:W. Puijk
Modifier:W. Puijk Research group:paleobotany
Created:2003-05-08 05:05:16 Last modified:2003-05-08 08:05:18
Access level:the public Released:2003-05-08 05:05:16
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]