Where: Antarctica (60.7° S, 45.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Tithonian to Tithonian (152.1 - 100.5 Ma)
• Late Jurassic (Tithonian) or earliest Cretaceous
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; ferruginous, calcareous shale
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 36805: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 16.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
? Rhynchonellida indet. Kuhn 1949 | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam | |
? Steinmannia sp. Fischer 1886 oyster | |
? Exogyra sp. Say 1820 oyster | |
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop | |
Camptonectes sp. n. sp.
Camptonectes sp. n. sp. Meek 1864 scallop | |
? Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam | |
"Nucula (? Leionucula) sp." = Leionucula
"Nucula (? Leionucula) sp." = Leionucula Quenstedt 1930 nut clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
? Scaphopoda indet. Bronn 1862 tusk shell | |
Cephalopoda | |
Belemnopsis ex gr. uhligi belemnite | |
Lytoceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite |