Where: Antarctica (63.3° S, 62.1° W: paleocoordinates 55.7° S, 33.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)
• age based on occurence of Epimayites
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, black mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite, replaced with pyrite, replaced with other
Primary reference: M. R. A. Thomson. 1982. Late Jurassic fossils from Low Island, south Shetland Islands. Br. Antarct. Surv. Bull. (56)25-35 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 68360: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 17.01.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Epimayites aff. transiens" = Epimayaites transiens
"Epimayites aff. transiens" = Epimayaites transiens Waagen 1875 ammonite | |
? Hibolithes sp. Mayer-Eymar 1883 belemnite | |
Bivalvia | |
Retroceramus ex gr. haasti Hochstetter 1863 clam |