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

• Published in: Fossil Record
• Main Authors: Agathe Toumoulin, Anne-Laure Decombeix, Carla J. Harper, Rudolph Serbet
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Pensoft Publishers 2023
• Subjects: Paleontology; QE701-760; Carapace Nunatak; Victoria Land; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3897/fr.26.102570; https://doaj.org/article/3628ba0aaf874dc5930362ea4065d789

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 To...