Seymour Island, Telm 4, RV 9501 (Eocene of Antarctica)

Also known as UCMP RV9501

Where: Antarctica (64.2° S, 56.7° W: paleocoordinates 63.4° S, 63.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Telm4 Member (La Meseta Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• JA: Telm 4 is Ypresian according to Reguero et al. 2012

Environment/lithology: delta front; glauconitic, shelly/skeletal sandstone

• "a shell bed near the top of unit Telm4" "The lower units of the La Meseta Formation represent a near-shore, tidal-influenced, delta-front environment, and in turn are overlain by a

•transgressive-regressive depositional stack that aggrades upward

•through estuary-mouth, then inner-estuary facies."

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Collection methods: surface (float), mechanical,

• Originally part of University of California-Riverside collections.

Primary reference: L. B. Albright, M.O. Woodburne, J.A. Case and D.S. Chaney. 2003. A leatherback sea turtle from the Eocene of Antarctica: implications for antiquity of gigantothermy in Dermochelyidae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23(4):945-949 [P. Holroyd/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 61094: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 29.05.2006

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Taxonomic list

• Vertebrate reported from shell bed. No invertebrate taxa listed.
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Reptilia
 Testudines - Dermochelyidae
Dermochelyidae indet.
Dermochelyidae indet. Lydekker 1889 leatherback