Where: Seymour Island, Antarctica (64.3° S, 54.7° W: paleocoordinates 63.7° S, 59.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: La Meseta Formation, Eocene (56.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Probably the same unit from which Seymour Island marine inverts came from (from Ref. #145), multiple levels were sampled, approx 84m section represented

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale and sandstone

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: 84 m of stratigraphic section represented

Primary reference: S. A. Hall. 1977. Cretaceous and Tertiary dinoflagellates from Seymour Island, Antarctica. Nature 267:239-241 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31365: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 08.05.2003

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