Spartan Glacier3 (Antarctica) (Cretaceous of Antarctica)

Where: Alexander Island, Antarctica (70.8° S, 68.5° W: paleocoordinates 69.4° S, 44.9° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Spartan Glacier Formation, Aptian (125.0 - 113.0 Ma)

• fossils in this formation are divided into three faunas that span from 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 2078: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 21.06.1999

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Sanmartinoceras sp. Bonarelli 1921 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Aucellina sp. Pompeckj 1901 scallop
originally entered as "Aucellina spp."
 Ichnofossils -
Palaeophycus sp. Hall 1847
Chondrites sp. von Sternberg 1833
"Zoophycus sp." = Zoophycos Massalongo 1855
originally entered as "Zoophycos sp."
Planolites sp. Nicholson 1873