La Meseta Fm Telm 4: Ypresian, Antarctica
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Struthioptera camachoi
Zinsmeister 1977
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Antarctodarwinella nordenskjoldi
Wilkens 1911
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Pyramidellidae
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Orinella (Orinella) poliosura n. sp.
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Turbonilla (Ptycheulimella) cooki n. sp.
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original and current combination Ptycheulimella | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Architectonicidae
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Wangaloa disca n. sp.
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Typogrphical error in original pulication, this is uncertain | ||||||||||
Gastropoda
- Epitoniidae
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Epitonium (Epitonium) charitopolos n. sp.
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Amaea (Discoscala) suroclathrata n. sp.
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Gastropoda
- Turritellidae
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Colposigma euthenia n. sp.
Stilwell and Zinsmeister 1992
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Gastropoda
- Neotaenioglossa
- Calyptraeidae
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Sigapatella disapicula n. sp.
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Gastropoda
- Ficidae
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Austroficopsis wimani n. gen., n. sp.
Stilwell and Zinsmeister 1992
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Volutidae
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Eoscaphella ellioti n. gen., n. sp.
Stilwell and Zinsmeister 1992
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Mitridae
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"Mitra" cramei n. sp.
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"Mitra" thomsoni n. sp.
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Mitra (Eumitra) monoplicata n. sp.
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Mitra (Eumitra) sadleri n. sp.
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Nassariidae
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Sudonassarius antarctohimaleos n. gen., n. sp.
Stilwell and Zinsmeister 1992
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Buccinidae
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Zelandiella verrucosa n. sp.
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Penion australocapax n. sp.
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Austrobuccinum tuberosum n. gen., n. sp.
Stilwell and Zinsmeister 1992
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Fasciolariidae
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Taioma bicarinata n. sp.
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Streptochetus (Streptolathyrus) polaris n. sp.
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Raphitomidae
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Austrotoma oliveroi n. sp.
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Cancellariidae
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Pristimerica australis n. sp.
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Costellariidae
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Austrosullivania striata n. gen., n. sp.
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Austrosullivania lata n. gen., n. sp.
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Conomitra cernohorskyi n. sp.
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Conomitra iredalei n. sp.
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Conomitra antarctolirata n. sp.
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Gastropoda
- Naticidae
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Globisinum powelli n. sp.
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Polinices (Polinices) cf. subtenius
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Gastropoda
- Vasidae
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Tudicla doylei n. sp.
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Bivalvia
- Nuculanida
- Malletiidae
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Australoneilo rossi
Zinsmeister 1984
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Bivalvia
- Solemyida
- Solemyidae
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Solemya peteri
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Cucullaeidae
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Cucullaea raea
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Bivalvia
- Lucinida
- Lucinidae
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Saxolucina sharmani
(Wilckens 1911)
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Mactridae
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Mactra irizari
Wilckens 1912
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Veneridae
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Eurhomalea newtoni
(Wilckens 1911)
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Bivalvia
- Carditida
- Crassatellidae
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Eucrassatella wilckensi
(Median and Rinaldi 1978)
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Reptilia
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Anthropornis grandis
(Wiman 1905)
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Myrcha et al. 2002 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
Angiospermae
- Moraceae
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Ficus australis n. sp.
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | Antarctica | State/province: | Seymour Island |
Coordinates: | 64.3° South, 56.8° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 63.4° South, 63.9° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
Geographic resolution: | basin |
Time
Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Eocene |
Stage: | Ypresian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 2 |
Key time interval: | Ypresian | ||
Age range of interval: | 56.00000 - 47.80000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lag,coarse,phosphatic,shelly/skeletal unlithified conglomeratic,calcareous sandstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: conglomeratic shell bed abundant phosphatic shark, skate, and ray teeth and vertebrate bones shells in bioclastic gray-brown coarse-grained, conglomeratic sandstone basal contact is erosive and scoured, with cobbles and phosphate crudely cross-bedded | |
Environment: | estuary/bay |
Glacial or sequence phase: | transgressive surface |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,original aragonite,original calcite |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Associated major elements: | many |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | all microfossils,some macrofossils,difficult macrofossils |
Collection methods: | bulk,surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:Mollusks only |
Metadata
Database number: | 63550 | ||
Authorizer: | L. Ivany, M. Uhen | Enterer: | L. Ivany, M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2006-08-16 11:53:59 | Last modified: | 2018-03-08 14:08:16 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2006-08-16 11:53:59 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
18284. | J. D. Stilwell and W. J. Zinsmeister. 1992. Molluscan Systematics and Biostratigraphy. Antarctic Research Series, AGU 55 [L. Ivany/L. Ivany/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
64969 | A. Engelbrecht, T. Mörs, M. A. Reguero and J. Kriwet. 2017. New carcharhiniform sharks (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from the early to middle Eocene of Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(6):e1371724 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] | |
19675 | 5% 56120 | A. Myrcha, P. Jadwiszczak, C. P. Tambussi, J. I. Noriega, A. Gazdzicki, A. Tatur, and R. A. Valle. 2002. Taxonomic revision of Eocene Antarctic penguins based on tarsometatarsal morphology. Polish Polar Research 23(1):5-46 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |