Also known as Antarctic peninsula region
Where: Antarctic peninsula, Antarctica (69.5° S, 65.0° W: paleocoordinates 73.9° S, 47.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Cretaceous to Early/Lower Cretaceous (145.0 - 66.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: original sporopollenin
Primary reference: M. E. Dettmann. 1989. Antarctica: Cretaceous cradle of austral temperate rainforests?. In J. A. Crame (ed.), Origins and Evolution of the Antarctic Biota 47:89-105 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo/P. Santamarina]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 172746: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 20.08.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Clavifera triplex Bolkhovitina 1966 | |
Cyatheacidites annulatus Cookson 1947 | |
Cicatricosisporites ludbrookiae, Cicatricosisporites australiensis, Cicatricosisporites hughesii, Appendicisporites indet., Nodosisporites indet.
Cicatricosisporites ludbrookiae Dettmann et al. 1987
Cicatricosisporites australiensis PotoniƩ 1956
Cicatricosisporites hughesii Dettmann 1963
Appendicisporites indet. Weyland and Greifeld 1953
Nodosisporites indet. Dettmann and Clifford 1992 | |
Trichotomosulcites subgranulatus Couper 1953 | |
Crybelosporites striatus Dettmann 1963 | |
Lygistepollenites indet. Harris 1965 podocarp
Podocarpidites ellipticus Cookson 1947 podocarp | |
Angiospermae | |
Clavatipollenites hughesii Kemp 1968 | |
Tricolpites reticulatus Couper 1953 | |
Peninsulapollis indet. Dettmann and Jarzen 1988 | |
Beaupreaidites indet. PotoniƩ 1960 | |
Ilexpollenites indet. Thiergart 1937 | |
Nothofagidites senectus Dettmann and Playford 1968 | |
Equisetopsida | |
Marchantiopsida | |
Triporoletes reticulatus Playford 1971 | |
Lycopodiopsida | |
Retitriletes indet. Pierce 1961 clubmoss |