Port Darwin (Permian to of Falkland Islands (Malvinas))

Also known as PGAP 11029

Where: Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (51.8° S, 58.9° W: paleocoordinates 63.7° S, 64.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: B. Choiseul Formation (Isla Soledao Group), Sakmarian to Sakmarian (293.5 - 279.3 Ma)

• Glossopteris Zone

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Archangelsky and R. Cuneo. 1984. Zonacion del Permico continental de Argentina sobre la base de sus plantas fosiles. Memoria III Congreso Latinoamericano Paleontologia 143-158 [A. Rees/A. Rees]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 30103: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Allister Rees on 02.04.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• List from p. 146-147,150. Genus-level assignments and numbers of species are from the PGAP database. Species names are in the process of being entered.
Polypodiopsida
 Equisetales - Equisetidae
Phyllotheca "sp. 1" Brongniart 1828
Phyllotheca "sp. 2" Brongniart 1828
 Coniferales -
Desmiophyllum "sp. 1" Lesquereux 1878
Buriadia "sp. 1" Seward and Sahni 1920
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Dadoxylon "sp. 1" Endlicher 1847
Dadoxylon "sp. 2" Endlicher 1847
Arberiopsida
 Arberiales -
Glossopteris "sp. 1" Brongniart 1828
Glossopteris "sp. 2" Brongniart 1828
Glossopteris "sp. 3" Brongniart 1828
Glossopteris "sp. 4" Brongniart 1828
Glossopteris "sp. 5" Brongniart 1828
Glossopteris "sp. 6" Brongniart 1828
Vertebraria "sp. 1" Royle 1839