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1 July 2004 PARADICTYODORA ANTARCTICA: A NEW COMPLEX VERTICAL SPREITE TRACE FOSSIL FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE OF ANTARCTICA AND TIERRA DEL FUEGO, ARGENTINA
EDUARDO B. OLIVERO, LUIS A. BUATOIS, ROBERTO A. SCASSO
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Abstract

A new ichnotaxon, Paradictyodora antarctica, is proposed for complex spreite trace fossils from the Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica and Eocene of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. This complex, three-dimensional, vertical spreite structure enlarges upwards, displaying a prismatic-to-conical shape that consists of subvertical folded laminae, produced by the lateral migration of a subvertical J-shaped tube anchored at its base. Overall morphology and mode of formation distinguishes this new ichnotaxa from other ichnogenera such as Daedalus, Dictyodora, and Heimdallia. Paradictyodora occurs in fodinichnia-dominated ichnocoenosis developed in distal fine-grained deposits of deepwater fan delta systems.

EDUARDO B. OLIVERO, LUIS A. BUATOIS, and ROBERTO A. SCASSO "PARADICTYODORA ANTARCTICA: A NEW COMPLEX VERTICAL SPREITE TRACE FOSSIL FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS-PALEOGENE OF ANTARCTICA AND TIERRA DEL FUEGO, ARGENTINA," Journal of Paleontology 78(4), 783-789, (1 July 2004). https://doi.org/10.1666/0022-3360(2004)078<0783:PAANCV>2.0.CO;2
Accepted: 1 September 2003; Published: 1 July 2004
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