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Article Dans Une Revue Fossil Record Année : 2023

Early Jurassic silicified woods from Carapace Nunatak, South Victoria Land, Antarctica

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The Jurassic vegetation of Antarctica remains poorly known and, while there have been several reports of large fossil trees from that time period across the continent, detailed anatomical studies of their wood are extremely scarce. Here we describe new silicified woods of Early Jurassic (probably Toarcian) age from Carapace Nunatak, South Victoria Land. The genera Agathoxylon and Brachyoxylon are formally recognized for the first time in the Jurassic of Antarctica. The preservation of the woods is imperfect, which is likely explained by the presence in some of the specimens of fungi, whose anatomical structures are described in detail. Combined with previous reports of pollen, leaves, and cones from South and North Victoria Land, these new specimens support the presence of several conifer families in the Early Jurassic floras of the region.
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Agathe Toumoulin, Anne-Laure Decombeix, Carla J Harper, Rudolph Serbet. Early Jurassic silicified woods from Carapace Nunatak, South Victoria Land, Antarctica. Fossil Record, 2023, 26, pp.103 - 115. ⟨10.3897/fr.26.102570⟩. ⟨hal-04105951⟩
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