Locality 8, Corrie, southwest Lachman Crags: Early/Lower Campanian, Antarctica
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Nephropidae
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Metanephrops rossensis
Feldmann et al. 1993
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Retrorsichelidae
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Retrorsichela laevis
Feldmann et al. 1993
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Callianassidae
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Callianassa cf. meridionalis
Ball 1960
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Geography
| Country: | Antarctica |
| Coordinates: | 63.9° South, 57.9° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 61.7° South, 68.6° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Campanian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 7 |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 72.10000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Santa Marta | Member: | Lachman Crags | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Early Campanian, on the basis of calcareous nannofossils, and consistent with ammonites (Guerra et al., 2015). Possible correlation with the conglomerate levels at the top of locality. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified sandstone |
| Environment: | offshore |
| Geology comments: Deposited below storm wave base in mid to outer shelf depths | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BMNH |
| Collection method comments: Repository: British Antarctic Survey, stored at BMNH | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 221283 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2021-07-22 23:23:40 | Last modified: | 2021-07-22 23:23:40 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2021-07-22 23:23:40 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 45268. | decapod | R. M. Feldmann, D. M. Tshudy, and M. R. A. Thomson. 1993. Late Cretaceous and Paleocene decapod crustaceans from James Ross Basin, Antarctic Peninsula. The Paleontological Society Memoir 28:1-41 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham] |