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

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Based on dinoflagellate biostrat and Sr isotopes (Douglas et al., 2014) This level is located 120 m below the top of the La Meseta Formation within Unit I11 of Elliot & Trautman (1982), Telm 7 of Sadler (1988) or Allomember Submeseta of Marenssi & Santillana (1994).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified, glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Palaeontology section of the University of Buenos Aires (CPBA)

Primary reference: M. B. Aguirre-Urreta, S. Marenssi, and S. Santillana. 1995. A new Eocene crab (Crustacea, Decapoda) from Seymour Island, Antarctica. Antarctic Science 7:277-281 [M. Clapham/R. Valdez /R. Valdez ]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 191734: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.02.2018

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