Latest Jurassic–earliest Cretaceous age for a fossil flora from the Latady Basin, Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Antarctic Science
• Main Authors: Hunter, Morag A., Cantrill, David J., Flowerdew, Michael J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2006
• Subjects: Geology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Oceanography; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Weddell Sea; Weddell; Latady; Larsen Basin; Cantrill Nunataks; Antarc*; Antarctic Science
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102006000290; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0954102006000290

Dating Jurassic terrestrial floras in the Antarctic Peninsula has proved problematic and controversial. Here U–Pb series dating on detrital zircons from a conglomerate interbedded with fossil plant material provide a maximal depositional age of 144 ± 3 Ma for a presumed Jurassic flora. This is the f...