Where: Antarctica (66.0° S, 60.6° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 65.8° S, 29.2° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Novocin Member (Hauberg Mountains Formation), Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)
• "early Tithonian" is used in a local, Antarctic sense. It refers to the perisphinctid-dominated ammonite fauna which occurs in the lower levels of the extensive Himalia Ridge Formation, Fossil Bluff Group, Alexander Island. PJW: Should be Novocin member of Hauberg Mountains now.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: foreshore; lithified, fine-grained, medium, volcaniclastic, gray sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, trace, recrystallized, coalified
Collection methods: all specimens are housed in the collections of the Geoscience Division, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge
Primary reference: T. R. Riley, J. A. Crame, M. R. A. Thomson and D. J. Cantrill. 1997. Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian) macrofossil assemblage from Jason Peninsula, Graham Land: evidence for a significant northward extension of the Latady Formation. Antarctic Science 9(4):434-442 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36768: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 15.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Otozamites sp. Braun 1843 | |
Bivalvia | |
Myophorella (Scaphogonia) cf. purseri Fleming 1987 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Dicoelites ? sp. Boehm 1906 belemnite | |
Belemnopsis cf. annae belemnite
Belemnopsis sp. Bayle 1878 belemnite | |
Subdichotomoceras sp. Spath ammonite |