Tuesday, 28 August 2007 - 2:50 PM
2.P1.B-5
Exceptionally well-preserved Triassic and Early Jurassic floras from North Victoria Land, Antarctica
Benjamin Bomfleur1, Jörg Schneider2, Robert Schöner3, Lothar Viereck-Götte3, and Hans Kerp1. (1) Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Hindenburgplatz 57, Münster, 48143, Germany, (2) Institut für Geologie, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Bernhard-von-Cotta Str. 2, Freiberg, 09596, Germany, (3) Institut für Geowissenschaften, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Burgweg 11, Jena, 07749, Germany
This extended abstract gives an overview about newly discovered fossil floras from the Triassic and Lower Jurassic of North Victoria Land, Antarctica. The most important finds comprise a cuticle-bearing Dicroidium-flora and cuticle-bearing bennettitalean-dominated floras as well a deposit with structurally preserved dipterid ferns and cycadophytes. Highly remarkable is the excellent state of preservation of these floras which is rarely found elsewhere in the Lower Mesozoic of Gondwana.