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New records of Devonian plants from southern Victoria Land, Antarctica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

S. McLoughlin  and
J. A. Long
S. McLoughlin
Affiliation:
Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, W.A. 6009, Australia
J. A. Long
Affiliation:
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Western Australian Museum, Francis St, Perth, W.A. 6000, Australia
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Abstract

An assemblage of fossil plants is here recorded from the Middle Devonian Beacon Heights Orthoquartzite and overlying Aztec Siltstone (Taylor Group), of the Cook Mountains and Skelton Névé regions, southern Victoria Land, Antarctica. The Beacon Heights Orthoquartzite exposed in the southern Cook Mountains yielded specimens of the lycopods Haplostigma lineare, Malanzania sp., and Archaeosigillaria sp. cf. A. caespitosa. The Aztec Siltstone flora contains Praeramunculus alternatiramus and H. lineare.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 131 , Issue 1 , January 1994 , pp. 81 - 90
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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