KG 1743 Fossil Bluff (Cretaceous of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (71.9° S, 68.4° W: paleocoordinates 68.3° S, 40.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fossil Bluff Formation, Early/Lower Aptian (121.4 - 122.5 Ma)

• "probably Lower Aptian"

Environment/lithology: lithified mudstone

• Mudstones and dominantly muddy sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: M. R. A. Thomson and E. F. Owen. 1979. Lower Cretaceous Brachiopoda from South-Eastern Alexander Island. British Antarctic Survey Bulletin (48)15-36 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157570: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 25.06.2014

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Ptilorhynchia australis Thomson and Owen 1979
 Rhynchonellida - Acanthothirididae
Acanthorhynchia (Echinirhynchia) setosa n. sp. Thomson and Owen 1979
 Terebratulida - Chlidonophoridae
Prochlidonophora muirwoodae Thomson and Owen 1979