DPV 5/84: Ypresian - Lutetian, Antarctica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Brachiopoda indet.
Holodromia chaneyi
Feldmann and Wilson 1988
Gastropoda
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795
Bivalvia
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Goneplacidae
Goneplacidae indet. MacLeay 1838
Crinoidea
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus praecursor Thurmond and Jones 1981
2 specimens
see common names

Geography
Country:Antarctica State/province:Seymour Island
Coordinates: 64.2° South, 56.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:63.5° South, 62.9° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:40 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 2
Key time interval:Ypresian - Lutetian
Age range of interval:56.00000 - 41.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:La Meseta Member:TELM 4-5
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Also identified as Unit II of the La Meseta Formation.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Punta Sergio, Locality 4, Locality 6
Database number:149634
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:G. Varnham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2013-08-18 05:57:53 Last modified:2022-04-06 07:10:01
Access level:the public Released:2013-08-18 05:57:53
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

47944. A. L. Cione and M. A. Reguero. 1994. New records of the sharks Isurus and Hexanchus from the Eocene of Seymour Island, Antarctica. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 105:1-14 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

45259decapod R. M. Feldmann and M. T. Wilson. 1988. Eocene decapod crustaceans from Antartica. Geological Society of America, Memoir 169 465-488 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson]