IAA 1/93 (Eocene of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (64.2° S, 56.6° W: paleocoordinates 64.3° S, 58.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Telm 7 Member (La Meseta Formation), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. S. Bargo and M. A. Reguero. 1998. Annotated catalogue of the fossil vertebrates from Antarctica housed in the Museo de la Plata, Argentina. I. Birds and Land Mammals from La Meseta Formation (Eocene - Early Oligocene). Associacion Paleontologica Argentina, Publicacion Especial 5:211-221 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 100419: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.12.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Aves
 Sphenisciformes -
Delphinornis sp.3 Wiman 1905 penguin
 Sphenisciformes - Spheniscidae
Palaeeudyptes klekowskii Myrcha et al. 2002 penguin
Chondrichthyes
 Pristiophoriformes - Pristiophoridae
Pristiophorus laevis1 Engelbrecht et al. 2017 saw shark
 Carcharhiniformes - Triakidae
Mustelus sp.2 hound shark
Kallodentis rhytistemma2 Engelbrecht et al. 2017 hound shark
Meridiogaleus cristatus2 Engelbrecht et al. 2017 hound shark