Where: Antarctica (60.7° S, 45.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Jurassic to Late/Upper Jurassic (161.5 - 100.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; pebbly, gray sandstone and fine-grained conglomerate
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,
Primary reference: M. R. A. Thomson. 1981. Late Mesozoic stratigraphy and invertebrate palaeontology of the South Orkney Isalnds. British Antarctic Survey Bulletin (54)65-83 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36802: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 16.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
? Trigonia sp. Bruguière 1789 clam | |
? Protocardia sp. Beyrich 1845 cockle | |
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster | |
Exogyra sp. Say 1820 oyster | |
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop | |
Oxytoma sp. Meek and Hayden 1865 scallop | |
? Neithea sp. Drouet 1824 scallop | |
Cephalopoda | |
? Belemnopsis sp. Bayle 1878 belemnite | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoida indet. Troschel 1872 sea urchin | |
unclassified | |
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801 |