Also known as PGAP 481
Where: Antarctica (63.4° S, 57.0° W: paleocoordinates 57.1° S, 25.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Mount Flora Formation (Botany Bay Group), Early/Lower Jurassic (201.4 - 174.7 Ma)
• Rees (1993) assigned J1 age, Halle (1913) assigned J2 age, and Gee (1989) assigned J3/K1 age - see Rees (1993) for discussion
Environment/lithology:
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: P. M. Rees and C. J. Cleal. 2004. Lower Jurassic floras from Hope Bay and Botany Bay, Antarctica. Special Papers in Palaeontology 72:5-90 [A. Rees/A. Rees/A. Rees]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 29347: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Allister Rees on 02.04.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Cycadopsida | |
Pseudoctenis "sp. 1" Seward 1911 cycads | |
Taeniopteris "sp. 1" Brongniart 1828 cycads | |
Ginkgoopsida | |
Sagenopteris "sp. 1" Presl 1838 | |
Williamsonia "sp. 1" Carruthers 1870
Zamites "sp. 1" Brongniart 1828
Otozamites "sp. 1" Braun 1843
Otozamites "sp. 2" Braun 1843
Weltrichia "sp. 1" Braun 1843 | |
Elatocladus "sp. 1" Halle 1913 podocarp | |
Gymnospermopsida | |
Komlopteris "sp. 1" Barbacka 1994 | |
Peltaspermopsida | |
Pachypteris "sp. 1" Brongniart 1828 | |
Equisetopsida | |
Araucarites "sp. 1", Pagiophyllum "sp. 1", Pagiophyllum "sp. 2", Pagiophyllum "sp. 3", Pagiophyllum "sp. 4", Brachyphyllum "sp. 1"
Araucarites "sp. 1" Presl 1833
Pagiophyllum "sp. 1" Heer 1881
Pagiophyllum "sp. 2" Heer 1881
Pagiophyllum "sp. 3" Heer 1881
Pagiophyllum "sp. 4" Heer 1881
Brachyphyllum "sp. 1" Brongniart 1828 | |
Sphenopteridae | |
Sphenopteris "sp. 1" Sternberg 1825
Sphenopteris "sp. 2" Sternberg 1825 | |
Archangelskya | |
Archangelskya "sp. 1" Herbst 1964 | |
Schizolepidella | |
Schizolepidella "sp. 1" Halle 1913 | |
Goeppertella | |
Goeppertella "sp. 1" Oishi and Yamasita 1936 | |
Polypodiopsida | |
Equisetum "sp. 1" Linnaeus 1753 horsetail | |
Ctenis "sp. 1" Lindley and Hutton 1834 | |
Coniopteris "sp. 1" Brongniart 1849 scaly tree fern
Coniopteris "sp. 2" Brongniart 1849 scaly tree fern
Coniopteris "sp. 3" Brongniart 1849 scaly tree fern
Coniopteris "sp. 4" Brongniart 1849 scaly tree fern | |
Hausmannia "sp. 1" Dunker 1846 | |
Todites "sp. 1" Seward 1900 | |
Cladophlebis "sp. 1" Brongniart 1849
Cladophlebis "sp. 2" Brongniart 1849
Cladophlebis "sp. 3" Brongniart 1849
Cladophlebis "sp. 4" Brongniart 1849 |