DPV 8/84 (Eocene to of Antarctica)

Where: Seymour Island, Antarctica (64.2° S, 56.7° W: paleocoordinates 63.4° S, 62.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: TELM 5 Member (La Meseta Formation), Ypresian to Ypresian (56.0 - 41.3 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. L. Cione and M. A. Reguero. 1994. New records of the sharks Isurus and Hexanchus from the Eocene of Seymour Island, Antarctica. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 105:1-14 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 149633: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.08.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Chondrichthyes
 Hexanchiformes - Hexanchidae
Hexanchus sp. Rafinesque 1810 sixgill shark