@ARTICLE{Wrona_Ryszard_Early_2009, author={Wrona, Ryszard}, volume={vol. 30}, number={No 4}, journal={Polish Polar Research}, pages={347-377}, howpublished={online}, year={2009}, publisher={Polish Academy of Sciences}, publisher={Committee on Polar Research}, abstract={Arthropod carapaces have been recovered from the Early Cambrian fossiliferous limestone erratics (dropstones) in the Early Miocene glaciomarine Cape Melville Formation of King George Island (South Shetland Islands), West Antarctica. The arthropod fauna comprises the bradoriide carapaces of Albrunnicola bengtsoni Hinz-Schallreuter, Liangshanella birkenmajeri sp. nov., Melvillella corniculata gen. et sp. nov., Mongolitubulus squamifer Missarzhevsky, Zepaera sp., the phosphatocopid Dabashanella sp., and one problematic taxon. With the exception of M. squamifer, all described species are recorded from Antarctica for the first time. The described Antarctic bradoriide assemblage attests to a close relationship with similar faunas from South Australia and South China, but also includes more widely distributed taxa extending the relationship to the palaeocontinents of Siberia, Baltica and Laurentia.}, type={Article}, title={Early Cambrian bradoriide and phosphatocopide arthropods from King George Island, West Antarctica: Biogeographic implications}, URL={http://www.czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/110558/PDF/PPR30-347.pdf}, keywords={Antarctica, King George Island, Cambrian, Arthropoda, Bradoriida, Phosphatocopida}, }