Seymour Island 1 (Cretaceous to of Antarctica)

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

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Taxonomic list

Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
"Oistotrigonia sp." = Linotrigonia (Oistotrigonia)
"Oistotrigonia sp." = Linotrigonia (Oistotrigonia) Cox 1952 clam
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Kossmaticeratidae
Gunnarites bhavaniformis Kilian and Reboul 1909 ammonite