Conifer Fossil Woods from the Sobral Formation (Lower Paleocene, Western Antarctica)

• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Antarctica; Araucariaceae; Podocarpaceae; Seymour (Marambio) Island; anatomy; biostratigraphy; coniferous tree; fossil assemblage; fossil record; Paleocene; palynology; wood; Seymour Island; West Antarctica; Agathoxylon; Coniferophyta; Dicotyledoneae; Podocarpoxylon; Antarctic; Argentina; Cross Valley; Marambio; Seymour; Sobral; The Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00027014_v55_n1_p91_Mirabelli; https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00027014_v55_n1_p91_Mirabelli

Conifer fossil woods represent 54% of an assemblage of 116 specimens collected from sediments of the Sobral Formation in Seymour (Marambio) Island, Western Antarctica. These woods are anatomically described in detail and assigned to seven fossil-species of the following fossil-genera: Agathoxylon (A...