Sobral Fm., British Antarctic Survey- wood (Cretaceous to of Antarctica)

Where: Seymour Island, Antarctica (64.3° S, 56.7° W: paleocoordinates 62.3° S, 67.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Sobral Formation (Marambio Group), Santonian to Santonian (86.3 - 56.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; graded, fine-grained, coarse, brown, gray sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: permineralized, replaced with calcite

Collection methods: quarrying, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: I. Poole, A. M. W. Mennega, and D. J. Cantrill. 2003. Valdivian ecosystems in the Late Cretaceous and Early Tertiary of Antarctica: further evidence from myrtaceous and eucryphiaceous fossil wood. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 124:9-27 [E. Kowalski/E. Kowalski/E. Kowalski]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34280: authorized by Elizabeth Kowalski, entered by Elizabeth Kowalski on 25.08.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Angiospermae
 Oxalidales - Cunoniaceae
Eucryphiaceoxylon eucryphioides n. gen. Poole et al. 2001