Seymour Island 5 (Cretaceous of Antarctica)

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
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Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Perissoptera sp. Tate 1865 snail
 Neogastropoda - Fasciolariidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Kossmaticeratidae
Maorites tuberculatus Howard 1958 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
Panopea clausa Wilckens 1910 clam
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
spines
Reptilia
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Reptilia indet. Laurenti 1768 reptile