Fern thickets from the Cretaceous of Alexander Island, Antarctica containing Alamatus bifarius Douglas and Aculea acicularis sp. nov

• Published in: Cretaceous Research
• Main Author: Cantrill, David J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 1996
• Subjects: Alexander Island; Fossil Bluff; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/514940/; https://doi.org/10.1006/cres.1996.0013

Within the Albian Fossil Bluff Group of Alexander Island, Antarctica, sheet flood deposits have preserved palaeosols within situfernsAlamatus bifariusDouglas andAculea acicularissp. nov. Reconstructed as upright ferns, with fronds arising from a creeping subterranean rhizome, they formed thickets up...