Cape Zumberge, Orville Coast (Jurassic of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (76.1° S, 69.7° W: paleocoordinates 63.2° S, 18.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Latady Formation, Late/Upper Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• Latady Formation: alternation of dark sandstones, siltstones, clay and shales

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Dr P. D. Rowley, Dr M. R. A. Thomson in 1977-78

Primary reference: M. R. A. Thomson. 1983. Late Jurassic ammonites from the Orville Coast, Antarctica. 315-319 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76467: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 21.11.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Blanfordiceras wallichi Gray 1832 ammonite
Berriasella sp. Uhlig 1905 ammonite