Publication: Advances in Polar Science (APS). Antarctic Research. Vol. 7, No. 2, 141~149, December 1996
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Author: Cai Huimei
CNARC member: Polar Research Institute of China (PRIC)
Abstract: The Holocene ostracode are analyzed from the core sample NG93-1 collected in the Great Wall Bay, Antarctica during 1992 - 1993. Totally 11 genera 21 species have been identified in the sediments, of which the most abundant is Loxoreticulatum fallax, the second abundant are Xestoleberis keguelensis, Xestoleberis spp. , Semicytherura spp. , Australicythere polylyca, etc. Most species of ostracodes are those known in Antarctic area. Base on the study of ostracodes from the core NG93-1, their sedimentary environment may be of shore-shallow sea.
Keywords: the Great Wall Bay, Antarctica, ostracoda, sedimentary environment