Where: Seymour Island, Antarctica (64.3° S, 56.8° W: paleocoordinates 62.3° S, 67.6° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lopez de Bertodano Formation, Maastrichtian to Maastrichtian (72.1 - 70.6 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: foreshore; green sandstone and shale
Primary reference: C. E. Macellari. 1988. Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and paleoecology of Upper Cretaceous/Paleocene shelf-deltaic sediments of Seymour Island. Geological Society of America-Memoir 169:25-53 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 3124: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 27.07.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Polychaeta | |
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Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Oistotrigonia sp." = Linotrigonia (Oistotrigonia)
"Oistotrigonia sp." = Linotrigonia (Oistotrigonia) Cox 1952 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Gunnarites bhavaniformis Kilian and Reboul 1909 ammonite |