ZPAL 12, Sadler Stacks, Telm2 (Eocene of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (64.2° S, 56.6° W: paleocoordinates 63.4° S, 63.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Telm 2 Member (La Meseta Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Based on dinoflagellate biostrat and Sr isotopes (Douglas et al., 2014)

•See Kloess et al. 2020 for useful breakdown of stratigraphy of the La Peseta Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; unlithified, fine-grained, concretionary, silty, calcareous sandstone and unlithified, gray, silty, calcareous siltstone

• low-energy environment, below wave base or in a protected embayment
• The unit Telm2 exposures....consists of thick beds of laminated, fine-grained sands and silty sands.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Andrzej Gazdzicki

• Repository: Institute of Paleobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

•(ZPAL Bp.XXXVII)

Primary reference: M. A. Bitner. 1996. Brachiopods from the Eocene La Meseta Formation of Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Palaeontologia Polonica 55:65-100 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152873: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 01.12.2013, edited by Mark Uhen

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Taxonomic list

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Chondrichthyes
 Chimaeriformes - Callorhinchidae
Callorhinchus stahli
Callorhinchus stahli Kriwet and Gazdizicki 2003 plownose chimaera
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Liothyrella anderssoni