Echinoderm faunas from the lower Cretaceous (Aptian–Albian) of Alexander Island, Antarctica

• Published in: Palaeontology
• Main Authors: Smith, Andrew B., Crame, J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Palaeontological Association 2012
• Subjects: Alexander Island; Fossil Bluff; Neptune Glacier; Pluto Glacier; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/17365/; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2012.01129.x/pdf

Strata assigned to the Fossil Bluff Group on Alexander Island, Antarctica, contain Aptian to Albian highlatitude echinoderm faunas that lived at palaeolatitudes greater than 60 degrees south. The Pluto Glacier Formation, of essentially Aptian age, yields a deep-water assemblage that includes two oph...