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Smith, A. B. & Crame, J. A. 2012. Echinoderm faunas from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) of Alexander Island, Antarctica. Palaeontology 55, 305-324.
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10.1111/j.1475-4983.2012.01129.x [view]
Smith, A. B.; Crame, J. A.
2012
Echinoderm faunas from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) of Alexander Island, Antarctica
Palaeontology
55(2), 305-324
Publication
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 ophiuroids, an ophiacanthid and a representative of the ophiolepidid genus Mesophiomusium, both represented by partially articulated specimens. The echinoid fauna includes a new genus of diadematoid, Australidiadema, and a new genus of disasteroid, Notidisaster, which extend the record of both groups into the southern hemisphere. The overlying Neptune Glacier Formation, of late Albian age, yields only spatangoids which are common but rarely well enough preserved to be identified even to genus level, although at least some belong to the genus Hemiaster.
Key words: Cretaceous, Aptian–Albian, ophiuroids, echinoids, new taxa, taxonomy, Antarctica.
Antarctic
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Australidiadema Smith & Crame, 2012 † (original description)
Australidiadema alexanderi Smith & Crame, 2012 † (original description) Hemipedina taylori Smith & Crame, 2012 † (original description) Notidisaster Smith & Crame, 2012 † (original description) Notidisaster subitus Smith & Crame, 2012 † (original description)
Alexander Island for Hemipedina taylori Smith & Crame, 2012 †
Alexander Island for Notidisaster subitus Smith & Crame, 2012 † Diagnosis Test thin-plated; weakly imbricate especially adapically; interambulacral plates with primary tubercle and smaller ... [details] Diagnosis Test thin-plated; weakly imbricate especially adapically; interambulacral plates with primary tubercle and smaller ... [details] Diagnosis Test thin-plated; ovate in outline. Apical disc strongly disjunct with large interambulacral plates separating bivium ... [details] Diagnosis Test thin-plated; ovate in outline. Apical disc strongly disjunct with large interambulacral plates separating bivium ... [details] Etymology From the Latin australis (= southern) & -diadema [common suffix for diadematoids] [details] Etymology After Alexander Island, where the material comes from. [details] Etymology In honour of B.J. Taylor, for his pioneering work on the echinoderms of Antarctica. [details] Etymology From the Greek notia (= southern) and -disaster [from Disaster a basal atelostomate echinoid] [details] Etymology From the Latin subitus, meanin unexpected [details] Stratigraphy Pluto Glacier Formation, Fossil Bluff Group [details] Stratigraphy Pluto Glacier Formation and Neptune Glacier Formation, Fossil Bluff Group [details] Stratigraphy Pluto Glacier Formation, Fossil Bluff Group [details] Taxonomy Attribution to a specific family of stem-group Atelostomata uncertain [details] Type locality Keystone Cliffs and Fossil Bluff, Alexander Island, Antarctica [details] Type locality Tethys Nunataks, Fossil Bluff and Mount Phoebe, Alexander Island, Antarctica [details] Type locality Mount Phoebe, Mount Ariel, Fossil Bluff and Keystone Cliffs, Alexander Island, Antarctica [details] Type material British Antarctic Survey (BAS) HT: BAS KG.1681.14 [part & counterpart]; PT: BAS KG.1681.15, KG.1743.23b, KG.1744.38 [details] Type material British Antarctic Survey (BAS) HT: BAS KG1616.9; PT: BAS KG1616.10, KG3.127 [details] Type material British Antarctic Survey (BAS) HT: BAS KG.1676.11; PT: BAS KG.2.127, KG.17.26, KG.1676.3, KG.1676.4 [details] |