D.8410 Gin Cove (Cretaceous to of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (64.1° S, 58.4° W: paleocoordinates 69.0° S, 53.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tumbledown Cliffs Member (Whisky Bay Formation), Middle Cenomanian to Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: submarine fan; lithified sandstone and lithified conglomerate

• deep-water conglomeratic fans and slope apron deposits
• sandstones, pebbly sandstones and conglomerates

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Vodrazka and L. A. Crame. 2011. First fossil sponge from Antarctica and its paleobiogeographical significance. Journal of Paleontology 85(1):48-57 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 106266: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 04.03.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Hexactinellida
 Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae
Laocoetis piserai n. sp.
Laocoetis piserai n. sp. Vodrazka and Crame 2011 glass sponge
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Inoceramus ex gr. pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus
"Inoceramus ex gr. pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus Sowerby 1829 clam
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Desmoceras sp., "Pseudouhligella sp." = Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella)
Desmoceras sp. Zittel 1884 ammonite
"Pseudouhligella sp." = Desmoceras (Pseudouhligella) Matsumoto 1938 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
"Newboldiceras sp." = Calycoceras (Newboldiceras)
"Newboldiceras sp." = Calycoceras (Newboldiceras) Thomel 1972 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Gaudryceras sp.
Gaudryceras sp. de Grossouvre 1894 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Sciponoceras sp.
Sciponoceras sp. Hyatt 1894 ammonite