Angiosperm fossil woods from the Upper Cretaceous of Western Antarctica (Santa Marta Formation)

• Published in: Cretaceous Research
• Main Authors: Pujana, Roberto Roman, Iglesias, Ari, Raffi, María Eugenia, Olivero, Eduardo Bernardo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Academic Press Ltd - Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: ANGIOSPERMS; ANTARCTICA; FOSSIL WOOD; UPPER CRETACEOUS; WOOD ANATOMY; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Austral; Patagonia; Ross Island; Argentino; Argentina; Ari; Olivero; Antarc*; Antarctica; James Ross Island; Tierra del Fuego
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/86736

We identified six fossil-species of angiosperms based on fossil woods from two small collections from the Beta Member (lower Campanian) of the Santa Marta Formation on James Ross Island: 1) Paraphyllanthoxylon antarcticum sp. nov., a new species of Paraphyllanthoxylon (Angiosperm incertae sedis) whi...