Also known as Locality B, Mount King, Alexander Island, Antarctica
Where: Antarctica (69.9° S, 69.4° W: paleocoordinates 64.3° S, 100.1° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mount King Formation (LeMay Group), Sakmarian (295.5 - 290.1 Ma)
• The position of the mount King beds within a higher lithostratigraphic framework is uncertain at present. The may be assigned to the LeMay Group (Burn 1984) of Alexander Island or to the Trinity Peninsula Group (Aide 1957) of the Antarctic Peninsula, or perhaps represent a completely new lithostratigraphical unit. However, there are problems with each of these alternatives. Listed as possibly Gzhelian-Artinskian in paper, but Costatumulus is a Sakmarian genus in Argentina.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, bioturbated, sandy mudstone and lithified, conglomeratic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: All specimens collected in this study are housed at the British Antarctic Survey palaeontological collections in Cambridge
Primary reference: S. R. A. Kelly, P. A. Doubleday, C. H. C. Brunton, J. M. Dickins, G. D. Sevastopulo and P. D. Taylor. 2001. First Carboniferous and ?Permian marine macrofaunas from Antarctica and their tectonic implications. Journal of the Geological Society of London 158(2):219-232 [J. Alroy/C. Simpson/C. Simpson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 41804: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Carl Simpson on 20.07.2004, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
cf. Costatumulus sp. Waterhouse 1983 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
cf. Crurithyris sp. George 1931 | |
Lingulata | |
Lingulidae indet. Gray 1840 |