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• Subjects: 2000; Scott and Jones; 1991a). As shown experimentally; Table Nunatak; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.586.6093; http://www.nrm.se/download/18.1f76bb0e108d80568b080001971/42eklundetal2004.pdf

Antarctica. The mesofossils, up to a few mm in length, represent structures from lycopods (megaspores), ferns (circinate rachides), conifers (wood, leaves, leafy shoots, pollen cones, microsporophylls, ovulate cone scales, seeds), and angiosperms (leaves, flowers, 4fruits, seeds). This work focuses on the megaspores, microsporophylls, ovulate cone scales and vegetative structures. The mesofossils were extracted from unconsolidated sediments deposited in a shallow-marine environment during the late Santonian (ca. 83 Ma). The Table Nunatak assemblage is the only known Cretaceous mesofossil assemblage with charred plant parts from Antarctica, and one of only a few from the Southern Hemisphere as a whole. It represents the remains of forests that grew at palaeolatitudes of 65(S, during a time in the Cretaceous in which high latitude environments experienced warm temperate climates in a global greenhouse world.