Where: Seymour Island, Antarctica (64.3° S, 56.8° W: paleocoordinates 62.5° S, 67.5° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lopez de Bertodano Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: foreshore; gray, argillaceous, sandy siltstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
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 3156: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 27.07.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834 | |
Polychaeta | |
Gastropoda | |
Perissoptera sp. Tate 1865 snail | |
Taioma charcotianus snail
Cryptorhytis phillipiana snail | |
Eunaticina arctowskiana moon snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Maorites tuberculatus Howard 1958 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Panopea clausa Wilckens 1910 clam | |
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Echinoidea | |
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Reptilia | |
Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile |