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

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• "Unit B" of Upper Cretaceous marine succession, referred tentatively to this formation; Middle? to Upper Maastrichtian

•late Maastrichtian based on supplement to Clarke et al. (2005)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, fine-grained, concretionary sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Collected in 1992-1993; reposited in the MLP

Collection methods: mechanical, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: J. I. Noriega and C. P. Tambussi. 1995. A Late Cretaceous Presbyornithidae (Aves: Anseriformes) from Vega Island, Antarctic Peninsula: paleobiogeographic implications. Ameghiniana 32(1):57-61 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 45325: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 19.10.2004, edited by Kaitlin Maguire

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