@ARTICLE{Wrona_Ryszard_Early_2003, author={Wrona, Ryszard}, volume={vol. 24}, number={No 3-4}, journal={Polish Polar Research}, pages={181-216}, howpublished={online}, year={2003}, publisher={Polish Academy of Sciences}, publisher={Committee on Polar Research}, abstract={Molluscan fossils accompanied by familiar SSF have been recovered from Early Cambrian limestone erratics in the Early Miocene glaciomarine Cape Melville Formation of King George Island, West Antarctica. The molluscan fauna comprises the hyoliths Conotheca, Microcornus, Parkula, Hyptiotheca, “Hyolithes”, the helcionelloids ?Pararacornus, Yochelcionella, Anabarella, the low dextrally coiled Pelagiella and the high helically coiled Beshtashella, as well as the problematic mollusc Cupitheca. Most of described species are recorded here for the first time from Antarctica. The lithological and fossil contents of the erratics are almost the same as from autochthonous successions the Shackleton Limestone in the Argentina Range and Transantarctic Mountains. Early Cambrian outcrops around the Weddell Sea are a probable source of the erratic boulders. The Antarctic fauna is very similar to that from uppermost Botomian and Toyonian carbonate deposits in the Cambrian Basins of South Australia. These faunal and facies similarities between Antarctica and Australia confirm their neighbouring position and common biotic and basin evolution on the Cambrian Gondwana margin.}, type={Article}, title={Early Cambrian molluscs from glacial erratics of King George Island, West Antarctica}, URL={http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/110675/PDF/ppr24-181.pdf}, keywords={Antarctica, King George Island, Cambrian, Hyolitha, Helcionelloida, Gondwana}, }