Where: Antarctica (82.2° S, 160.3° E: paleocoordinates 0.1° S, 155.4° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Member (Shackleton Limestone Formation), Botomian (516.0 - 512.9 Ma)
• Shackleton Limestone underlies Holyoake formation & overlies Goldie Formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, nodular limestone
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, chemical
Primary reference: T. M. Claybourn, S. M. Jacquet, C. B. Skovsted, T. P. Topper, L. E. Holmer and G. A. Brock. 2019. Mollusks from the upper Shackleton Limestone (Cambrian Series 2), Central Transantarctic Mountains, East Antarctica. Journal of Paleontology 93(3):437-459 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 199520: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.01.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Pojetaia runnegari Jell 1980 clam | |
Helcionelloida | |
Pelagiella cf. subangulata Tate 1892 | |
Yochelcionella sp. Runnegar and Pojeta 1974 | |
"Davidonia rostrata" = Davidonia rostratum Zhou and Xiao 1984
? Protowenella sp. Runnegar and Jell 1976
Anuliconus sp. Parkhaev 2001 |