Orville Coast and eastern Ellsworth Land (Jurassic of Antarctica)

Also known as PGAP 5

Where: Antarctica (75.5° S, 80.0° W: paleocoordinates 64.9° S, 15.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Latady Formation, Late/Upper Jurassic (161.5 - 145.0 Ma)

• Compared to Hope Bay flora, believed by same author (e.g. Gee 1989) to be J3/K1, although Rees (1993) has shown Hope Bay to be J1.

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C.T. Gee. 1985. A Late Jurassic flora from the Orville Coast-eastern Ellsworth Land region of the Antarctic Peninsula. American Journal of Botany 72(6):894-894 [A. Rees/A. Rees]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 29368: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Allister Rees on 02.04.2003

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Taxonomic list

• List from p. 894. Genus-level assignments and numbers of species are from the PGAP database. Species names are in the process of being entered.
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Scleropteris
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Scleropteris "sp. 1"
Scleropteris "sp. 1" Saporta 1872
Polypodiopsida
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Cladophlebis "sp. 1"
Cladophlebis "sp. 1" Brongniart 1849
 Bennettitales -
Otozamites "sp. 1", Ptilophyllum "sp. 1"
Otozamites "sp. 1" Braun 1843
Ptilophyllum "sp. 1" Morris 1840
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Elatocladus "sp. 1", Elatocladus "sp. 2"
Elatocladus "sp. 1" Halle 1913 podocarp
Elatocladus "sp. 2" Halle 1913 podocarp
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Brachyphyllum "sp. 1"
Brachyphyllum "sp. 1" Brongniart 1828
Cycadopsida
 Pteridospermales -
Thinnfeldia "sp. 1"
Thinnfeldia "sp. 1" Ettingshausen 1852 cycads