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Samples of fossil wood and leaves of Tertiary age collected from Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula
During field work in 2001 over 1600 specimens were collected from four main fossil plant assemblages: the 'Nordenksjold flora' from the Cross Valley Formation of Late Palaeocene age; and 3 floras from La Meseta Formation i) Flora2 from the Valle De Las Focas allomember, ~late Early Eocene, ii) Wiman Flora, Acantilados allomember, late Early/mid Eocene, iii) Cucullaea 1, Cuculleae 1 allomember Flora, early Late Eocene. In addition smaller collections of fossils from other parts of the La Meseta Formation were collected. The work concentrated on the Late Palaeocene and the Cuculleae 1 floras as these were the best preserved and had sufficient morphotypes for climate analysis. In the Late Palaeocene flora 36 angiosperm leaf morphotypes were identified, along with 2 pteridophytes (ferns), and podocarp and araucarian conifers. Discovery of several new leaf types indicates that the Tertiary floras from Antarctica were more diverse than previously thought.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2008-01-22
- Date (Revision)
- 2008-01-22
- Date (Publication)
- 2008-01-22
- Date (released)
- 2008-01-22
- Edition
- 1
- Unique resource identifier
- 7d3d9411-92c8-4607-80ba-c4897200ee23
- Codespace
- uuid
- Unique resource identifier
- GB/NERC/BAS/PDC/00311
- Codespace
- https://data.bas.ac.uk/
- Other citation details
- Please cite this item as: None
- Credit
- No credit.
- Status
- completed Completed
Point of contact
NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road
,
Cambridge
,
Cambridgeshire
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CB3 0ET
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United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 221400
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
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- asNeeded As needed
- Maintenance note
- completed Completed
- Theme
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- Geology
- Bio-geographical regions
- Palaeocene
- Tertiary floras
- biodiversity change
- forest diversity
- former greenhouse climate
- plant fossils
- terrestrial climate change
- Place
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- Seymour Island Antarctica
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- no limitations to public access
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- This dataset is supplied under the Open Government Licence v3.0: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
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- Requests for data can be made via the UK Polar Data Centre (UK PDC) at BAS.
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- Biota
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- Begin date
- 2001-01-01
- End date
- 2001-03-31
- Supplemental Information
- It is recommended that careful attention be paid to the contents of any data, and that the author be contacted with any questions regarding appropriate use. If you find any errors or omissions, please report them to polardatacentre@bas.ac.uk.
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Distributor
NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road
,
Cambridge
,
Cambridgeshire
,
CB3 0ET
,
United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 221400
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
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Data quality:
Some of the best preserved plant fossils of early Tertiary (Palaeocene to Eocene) age in the Southern Hemisphere were collected from Seymour Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula.
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- dataset Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
- dataset
- Date stamp
- 2008-01-22
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
- ISO 19115:2003(E)
Point of contact
NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
British Antarctic Survey, High Cross, Madingley Road
,
Cambridge
,
Cambridgeshire
,
CB3 0ET
,
United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 221400
https://www.bas.ac.uk/team/business-teams/information-services/uk-polar-data-centre/
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