First marine Triassic fauna from the Antarctic Peninsula

• Published in: Nature
• Main Author: Thomson, M.R.A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1975
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Legoupil; Antarc*; British Antarctic Survey
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/525877/; https://doi.org/10.1038/257577a0

The fauna reported here was obtained from the Legoupil Formation in the north-western part of the Antarctic Peninsula (Fig. 1), which has been assigned a Cretaceous age on the basis of radiometric data1,2. Among the first collection of poorly preserved fossils from this formation were two bivalves t...