Fish level 3, Longing Gap (Jurassic of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (64.5° S, 59.0° W: paleocoordinates 54.9° S, 35.5° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Mendozanus ammonoid zone, Longing Member (Ameghino Formation), Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: G. Arratia, R. Scasso, and W. Kiessling. 2004. Late Jurassic fishes from Longing Gap, Antarctic Peninsula. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(1):41-55 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90427: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 20.07.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Ichthyodectiformes -
Antarctithrissops australis n. gen. n. sp. Arratia et al. 2004