Abstract:

In Antarctica Devonian rocks outcropped in the Transantarctic Mountains and accumulated mainly in two basins:McMurdo basin and Ohio Range to Ellisworth Mts..Early Devonian littora l arenaceous sediments and Late Devonian alluvial plain depositions distributed in South Victoria Land.A thin sequence of nearshore marine beds with a shelly Malvinokaffic Emsian fauna occured in the Ohio Range.The Ellsworth basin lay between the epicontinental basin and the marginal magmatic arc during the Devonian.The Antarctic Devonian could be compared with the Qujing type squences in South China as well as the Qilianshan type depositions in NW China,but they provided with some different biegeographic faunas.