Where: Antarctica (75.6° S, 68.0° W: paleocoordinates 62.5° S, 17.7° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Novocin Member (Hauberg Mountains Formation), Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)
• Age given as Kimmeridgian?-Tithonian. By.21. Crame argues for a Kimmeridgian age
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: mechanical
• All Specimens are housed in the British Anatrctic Survey Palaeontological Collections, Cambridge
Primary reference: S. R. A. Kelly. 1995. New trigonoid bivalves from the early Jurassic to earliest Cretaceous of the Antarctic Peninsula region: systematics and austral paleobiogeography. Journal of Paleontology 69(1):66-84 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36787: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 16.02.2004, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Myophorella (Scaphogonia) sp. Crickmay 1930 clam | |
Malayomaorica malayomaorica Krumbeck 1923 scallop |