Also known as James Ross Archipelago

Where: Antarctica (64.3° S, 56.8° W: paleocoordinates 62.6° S, 67.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: López de Bertodano Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• “molluscan units”

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale and sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

• DJ.953.690, six vertebrae and five associated vertebral fragments

•DJ.953.751, large proximal portion of a rib

Preservation: concretion

Collected by British Antarctic Survey (BAS)

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

• Collected under the auspices of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and reposed in Cambridge.

Primary reference: J. E. Martin and J. A. Crame. 2006. Palaeobiological significance of high-latitude Late Cretaceous vertebrate fossils from the James Ross Basin, Antarctica. Cretaceous-Tertiary high-latitude palaeoenvironments: James Ross Basin, Antarctica 258(1):109-124 [E. Vlachos/F. Aspromonte/F. Aspromonte]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 232783: authorized by Evangelos Vlachos, entered by Franco Aspromonte on 29.12.2023

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