Erehwon Nunatak (Permian to of Antarctica)

Also known as PGAP 12077

Where: Antarctica (74.5° S, 71.0° W: paleocoordinates 73.6° S, 74.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Erehwon Beds Member, Roadian to Roadian (272.3 - 252.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology:

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C.T. Gee. 1989. Permian Glossopteris and Elatocladus megafossil floras from the English Coast, eastern Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. Antarctic Science 1:35-44 [A. Rees/A. Rees]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 29363: authorized by Allister Rees, entered by Allister Rees on 02.04.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• List from p. 35. 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
Equisetites "sp. 1" Sternberg 1833
Equisetum "sp. 1" Linnaeus 1753 horsetail
Arberiopsida
 Arberiales -
Glossopteris "sp. 1" Brongniart 1828