Botany Bay: Early/Lower Jurassic, Antarctica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
cycadophyte scale leaf type B informal sp. 1
Bennettitales
Zamites informal sp. 1 leaf Brongniart 1828
Otozamites informal sp. 1 leaf Braun 1843
Otozamites informal sp. 2 leaf Braun 1843
Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Elatocladus informal sp. 1 leaf Halle 1913
Polypodiopsida - Osmundaceae
Todites informal sp. 1 leaf Seward 1900
Polypodiopsida
Cladophlebis informal sp. 1 leaf Brongniart 1849
Cladophlebis informal sp. 2 leaf Brongniart 1849
Cladophlebis informal sp. 3 leaf Brongniart 1849
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales - Equisetaceae
Equisetum informal sp. 1 axis Linnaeus 1753
Polypodiopsida - Polypodiales - Dryopteridaceae
Ctenis informal sp. 1 leaf Lindley and Hutton 1834
Polypodiopsida - Gleicheniales - Dipteridaceae
Hausmannia informal sp. 1 leaf Dunker 1846
Polypodiopsida - Gleicheniales - Matoniaceae
Matonidium informal sp. 1 leaf Schenk 1871
Polypodiopsida - Cyatheales - Cyatheaceae
Coniopteris informal sp. 1 leaf Brongniart 1849
Coniopteris informal sp. 2 leaf Brongniart 1849
unclassified
Goeppertella informal sp. 1 leaf Oishi and Yamasita 1936
Goeppertella informal sp. 2 leaf Oishi and Yamasita 1936
Goeppertella informal sp. 3 leaf Oishi and Yamasita 1936
Glossophyllaceae
Caytonanthus informal sp. 1 Harris 1937
Ginkgoopsida - Caytoniales - Caytoniaceae
Sagenopteris informal sp. 1 leaf Presl 1838
Cycadopsida - Cycadales - Nilssoniaceae
Pseudoctenis informal sp. 1 leaf Seward 1911
Cycadopsida - Cycadales
Taeniopteris informal sp. 1 leaf Brongniart 1828
Taeniopteris informal sp. 2 leaf Brongniart 1828
Equisetopsida - Araucariaceae
Brachyphyllum informal sp. 1 leaf Brongniart 1828
Pagiophyllum informal sp. 1 leaf Heer 1881
Pagiophyllum informal sp. 2 leaf Heer 1881
Pagiophyllum informal sp. 3 leaf Heer 1881
Araucarites informal sp. 1 Presl 1833
Peltaspermopsida - Peltaspermales - Umkomasiaceae
Pachypteris informal sp. 1 leaf Brongniart 1828
Gymnospermopsida - Corystospermales - Corystospermaceae
Dicroidium informal sp. 1 leaf Gothan 1912
Sphenopteridae
Sphenopteris informal sp. 1 leaf Sternberg 1825
unclassified
Archangelskya informal sp. 1 leaf Herbst 1964
see common names

Geography
Country:Antarctica
Coordinates: 63.7° South, 57.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:57.4° South, 25.0° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1-3
*Period:Early/Lower Jurassic
Key time interval:Early/Lower Jurassic
Age range of interval:201.40000 - 174.70000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Botany Bay Formation:Camp Hill
Stratigraphy comments: J1 age assigned by Rees (1993). The Botany Bay flora has 80% of species in common with nearby Hope Bay; they are probably contemporaneous.
Lithology and environment
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Genus-level assignments and numbers of species are from the PGAP database. Species names are in the process of being entered.
Metadata
Also known as:PGAP 482
Database number:29344
Authorizer:A. Rees Enterer:A. Rees
Research group:paleobotany
Created:2003-04-02 12:40:47 Last modified:2017-05-23 16:34:15
Access level:the public Released:2003-04-02 12:40:47
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
7964.PGAP 16P. 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]