Low Island, South Shetland Islands, locality 2 (Jurassic to of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (63.3° S, 62.1° W: paleocoordinates 55.2° S, 39.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tithonian to Tithonian (152.1 - 139.8 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, tuffaceous mudstone

• erratic fauna in loose blocks of tuffaceous mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

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 68362: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 17.01.2007

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
 Belemnitida - Mesohibolitidae
Hibolithes sp. Mayer-Eymar 1883 belemnite