Spartan Glacier1 (Antarctica) (Cretaceous to of Antarctica)

Where: Alexander Island, Antarctica (70.8° S, 68.5° W: paleocoordinates 64.6° S, 37.3° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Spartan Glacier Formation, Hauterivian to Hauterivian (132.9 - 132.9 Ma)

• fossils in formation divided into three faunas, spanning Valanginian through Aptian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sandstone and shale

Primary reference: P. J. Butterworth, J. A. Crame, P. J. Howlett and D. I. M. Macdonald. 1988. Lithostratigraphy of Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous strata of eastern Alexander Island, Antarctica. Cretaceous Research 9(3):249-264 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/A. Clement]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 2076: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 21.06.1999

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Belemnopsis sp. Bayle 1878 belemnite
cf. Belemnopsis madagascariensis belemnite
originally entered as "Belemnopsis cf. madagascariensis"
 Ammonitida - Bochianitidae
Bochianites sp. Lory 1898 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
Olcostephanus sp. Neumayr 1875 ammonite
 Ichnofossils -
Planolites sp. Nicholson 1873
"Zoophycus sp." = Zoophycos Massalongo 1855
originally entered as "Zoophycos sp."
Palaeophycus sp. Hall 1847
Chondrites sp. von Sternberg 1833