Seymour Island 10 (Paleocene of Antarctica)

Where: Seymour Island, Antarctica (64.3° S, 56.8° W: paleocoordinates 63.1° S, 66.7° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lopez de Bertodano Formation, Early/Lower Paleocene (66.0 - 61.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: prodelta; green, sandy siltstone

Primary reference: C. E. Macellari. 1988. Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and paleoecology of Upper Cretaceous/Paleocene shelf-deltaic sediments of Seymour Island. Geological Society of America-Memoir 169:25-53 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3175: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 27.07.1999

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Taxonomic list

Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Rotularia sp.
present only at base of unit
Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
"Perissoptera nordenskjoldi" = Struthiochenopus nordenskjoldi
"Perissoptera nordenskjoldi" = Struthiochenopus nordenskjoldi Wilckens 1910 snail
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
"Nucula suboblonga" = Nucula (Leionucula) suboblonga
"Nucula suboblonga" = Nucula (Leionucula) suboblonga Wilckens 1907 nut clam
 Cardiida - Lahillidae
Lahillia larseni Sharman and Newton 1897 clam
originally entered as "Lahilla larseni"
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea ellioti Zinsmeister and Macellari 1988 clam
originally entered as "Cucllaea ellioti"
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
spines