Triassic Tetrapods from Antarctica: Evidence for Continental Drift

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Elliot, David H., Colbert, Edwin H., Breed, William J., Jensen, James A., Powell, Jon S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1970
• Subjects: Antarctic; Austral; Coalsack Bluff; The Antarctic; Transantarctic Mountains; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.169.3951.1197; https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.169.3951.1197

During the austral summer of 1969-1970 bones of Lower Triassic vertebrates were excavated from coarse quartzose sandstones forming stream channel deposits of the Fremouw Formation at Coalsack Bluff, in the Transantarctic Mountains of Antarctica. This is the first assemblage of fossil tetrapods of si...