Seymour Island 2 (Cretaceous to of Antarctica)

Where: Seymour Island, Antarctica (64.3° S, 56.8° W: paleocoordinates 62.3° S, 67.6° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lopez de Bertodano Formation, Maastrichtian to Maastrichtian (72.1 - 70.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: foreshore; gray, green sandstone and 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: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3125: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 27.07.1999

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
"Nordenskjoldia sp." = Grammatodon (Nordenskjoldia)
"Nordenskjoldia sp." = Grammatodon (Nordenskjoldia) Wilckens 1910 clam
originally entered as "Nordenskjoldia sp."
Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
Anthozoa
  -
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834