PBDB Collection

DPV 14/84 (Eocene of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (64.2° S, 56.6° W: paleocoordinates 64.3° S, 58.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Submeseta II Member (Submeseta Formation), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• MLP 84-II-1-568 comes from the Submeseta Formation (Submeseta II Allomember, level 38, equivalent to TELM 7 of Sadler, 1988); late Eocene (Priabo- nian) (Fig. 2).

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. S. Bargo and M. A. Reguero. 1998. Annotated catalogue of the fossil vertebrates from Antarctica housed in the Museo de la Plata, Argentina. I. Birds and Land Mammals from La Meseta Formation (Eocene - Early Oligocene). Associacion Paleontologica Argentina, Publicacion Especial 5:211-221 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 100411: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 09.12.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Aves
Sphenisciformes -	Delphinornis sp., Delphinornis arctowskii², Delphinornis larseni², Anthropornis nordenskjoeldi², Anthropornis grandis² Delphinornis sp. Wiman 1905 penguin Delphinornis arctowskii² Myrcha et al. 2002 penguin Delphinornis larseni² Wiman 1905 penguin Anthropornis nordenskjoeldi² Wiman 1905 penguin Anthropornis grandis² Wiman 1905 penguin
Sphenisciformes - Spheniscidae	Palaeeudyptes sp., Palaeeudyptes gunnari², Palaeeudyptes klekowskii Palaeeudyptes sp. Huxley 1859 penguin Palaeeudyptes gunnari² Wiman 1905 penguin Palaeeudyptes klekowskii Myrcha et al. 2002 penguin
Sphenisciformes -	Wimanornis seymourensis, Archaeospheniscus wimani Wimanornis seymourensis Simpson 1971 penguin Archaeospheniscus wimani Marples 1953 penguin
Mammalia
Cetacea - Basilosauridae	Basilosauridae indet.¹ Basilosauridae indet.¹ Cope 1867 whale

¹Buono et al. 2016; ²Myrcha et al. 2002