Meyer Desert Formation biota
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Meyer Desert Formation biota
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The Meyer Desert Formation biota is a fossilized biota found in the Dominion Range in the Transantarctic Mountains in Antarctica, alongside the Beardmore Glacier. Since about 15 million years ago (Ma), Antarctica has been mostly covered with ice. Fossil Nothofagus leaves in the Meyer Desert Formation of the Sirius Group show that intermittent warm periods allowed Nothofagus shrubs to cling to the Dominion Range as late as 3–4 Ma. After that the Pleistocene glaciation covered the whole continent
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