Also known as Vega Island

Where: Antarctica (63.9° S, 57.6° W: paleocoordinates 62.2° S, 68.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• We tentatively assigned the specimens to the horizon SBM8, however, it cannot be ruled out that the specimens may have rolled down from upper strata (particularly horizons SBM11 and SBM 12)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by PALEOANTAR project in 2018-2019

Primary reference: G. A. de Souza, B. A. Bulak, M. B. Soares, J. M. Sayão, L. C. Weinschütz, A. Batezelli, and A. W. A. Kellner. 2023. The Cretaceous Neornithine record and new Vegaviidae specimens from the López de Bertodano Formation (Upper Maastrichthian) of Vega Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 95(3):e20230802 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 233507: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Philip Mannion on 09.02.2024

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