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The Meyer Desert Formation biota is a fossilized biota (flora and fauna) 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 of the show that intermittent warm periods allowed Nothofagus shrubs to cling to the Dominion Range as late as 3–4 Ma (mid-late Pliocene). After that the Pleistocene glaciation covered the whole continent with ice and destroyed all major plant life on it. Animals: Plants:

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  • The Meyer Desert Formation biota is a fossilized biota (flora and fauna) 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 of the show that intermittent warm periods allowed Nothofagus shrubs to cling to the Dominion Range as late as 3–4 Ma (mid-late Pliocene). After that the Pleistocene glaciation covered the whole continent with ice and destroyed all major plant life on it. Animals: Plants: (en)
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  • The Meyer Desert Formation biota is a fossilized biota (flora and fauna) 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 of the show that intermittent warm periods allowed Nothofagus shrubs to cling to the Dominion Range as late as 3–4 Ma (mid-late Pliocene). After that the Pleistocene glaciation covered the whole continent with ice and destroyed all major plant life on it. Species reported by Ashworth and Cantrill from about 3 million years ago include: Animals: * Pisidium species (very small or minute freshwater clams, Sphaeriidae) * A lymnaeid gastropod (air-breathing freshwater snails) * 2 species of curculionid beetles (weevils) * A cyclorrhaphid fly (Diptera) * A tooth of an unknown species of freshwater fish Plants: * Nothofagus beardmorensis (Fagales) * Ranunculus or similar achenes (Ranunculaceae?) * Mosses (apparently 5 types) * Pollen, mostly Nothofagus * Coniferous bisaccate pollen grains, perhaps * Pollen of the pollen genus * Flowering cushion plants * A seed of Hippuris (mare's tails: Plantaginaceae) * A seed of Cyperaceae (sedges) * 3 or more types of liverworts (en)
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