D.8673.7 (Cretaceous to of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (64.0° S, 57.4° W: paleocoordinates 61.9° S, 68.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Isabelidium korojonense other zone, López de Bertodano Formation (Marambio Group), Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 66.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, muddy mudstone and lithified, sandy sandstone

• Ranging from deep marine turbidite systems, to storm-dominated shelf sequencies.
• Massive sandstone interbedded with mudstone and silty sandstones.

Size class: microfossils

• other: Palynomorphs

Preservation: soft parts, original sporopollenin

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, hydrochloric, hydroflouric,

• Repository: British Antarctic Survey

Primary reference: D. Pirrie and J. B. Riding. 1988. Sedimentology, Palynology and structure of Humps Island, northern Antartic Peninsula. British Antarctic Survey Bulletin 80:1-19 [C. Jaramillo/P. Santamarina]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 150622: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Patricio Santamarina on 12.09.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Angiospermae
 Fagales -
Nothofagidites "sp." Potonié 1960
Dinophyceae
 Gonyaulacales - Ceratiaceae
 Peridiniales - Peridiniaceae
Isabelidinium korojonense Lentin and Williams 1977
Isabelidinium pellucidum Lentin and Williams 1977
  -
Spiniferites ramosus Lentin and Williams 1973
Ceratiopsis
  -
Ceratiopsis diebelii Vozzhennikova 1967