NE coast, Annenkov Island (Cretaceous to of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)

Where: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (54.5° S, 37.0° W: paleocoordinates 54.5° S, 37.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Annenkov Island Formation, Hauterivian to Hauterivian (132.9 - 113.0 Ma)

• Wilckens suggested that the ammonite fauna suggested an upper Aptian age. However, Casey (1961) expressed doubts and thought that some of the ammonites (Georgioceras and "Puzosia matheroni") more closely resembled Neocomian forms. Stone and Willey (1973) described a Belemnopsis-like belemnite from the Cumberland Bay type sequence that suggested an Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous age for that part of the succession. Crame (1983) identified inoceramids of the andina-radiatostriata group as indicating a Barremian-Aptian age, with Inoceramus cf. anomiaeformis indicating a Hautervian-Barremian age.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, volcaniclastic sandstone

• Volcaniclastic sandstones and breccias

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Kuhl-Larsen in 1928-1929

• Repository: Senckenberg Museum

Primary reference: O. Wilckens. 1947. Paläontologische und geologische Ergebnisse der Reise von Kohl-Larsen (1928-29) nach Süd-Georgien. Abhandlungen der Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung 474:1-75 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 209141: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.04.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Sanmartinoceras cf. patagonicum Bonarelli and Nagera 1921 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Ancyloceratidae
? Tropaeum antarcticum n. sp. Wilckens 1947 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Crioceratitidae
"Georgioceras kohllarseni n. gen. n. sp." = Pseudothurmannia kohllarseni
"Georgioceras kohllarseni n. gen. n. sp." = Pseudothurmannia kohllarseni Wilckens 1947 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
"Puzosia ? matheroni" = Pseudohaploceras matheroni, ? Puzosia sp.
"Puzosia ? matheroni" = Pseudohaploceras matheroni d'Orbigny 1840 ammonite
? Puzosia sp. Bayle 1878 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Tellinidae
? Tellina sp. Linnaeus 1758 tellin clam
 Lucinida - Mactromyidae
? Thetironia sp. Stoliczka 1870 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
? Astarte (? Eriphyla) sp. Sowerby 1816 clam
? Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Aucellina radiatostriata Bonarelli and Nagera 1921 scallop
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
? Pteria (? Pseudoptera) sp. Scopoli 1777 pearl oyster
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
? Gervillia sp. Defrance 1820 oyster
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam
Thecostraca
 Pollicipomorpha - Zeugmatolepadidae
Zeugmatolepas georgiensis n. sp. Withers 1947 barnacle