Bodmann Cape, Seymour Island (Cretaceous of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (64.2° S, 56.7° W: paleocoordinates 62.1° S, 67.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• siltstones, shales with calcareous nodules, sandstones and conglomerates

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. B. Aguirre-Urreta. 1989. The Cretaceous decapod Crustacea of Argentina and the Antarctic Pensinsula. Palaeontology 32(3):499-552 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 66730: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.10.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Pachydiscus aff. gollevillensis d'Orbigny 1847 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Kossmaticeratidae
Maorites tuberculatus Howard 1958 ammonite
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Nephropidae
Hoploparia stokesi Weller 1903 clawed lobster