Where: Antarctica (75.4° S, 75.7° W: paleocoordinates 63.0° S, 10.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hauberg Mountains Formation (Latady Group), Middle Callovian to Middle Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)
• It is late middle—late Callovian in age based on ammonites and Retroceramus galoi
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified sandstone and lithified mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression
Collected by P. Quilty in 1966
• One specimen was collected from the Hauberg Mountains Formation in 1965–1966 and housed in the Geology Department, University of Tasmania. Collector assumed to be Quilty, who was at the University of Tasmania.
Primary reference: G. Arratia and D. C. H. Hikuroa. 2010. Jurassic Fishes from the Latady Group, Antarctic Peninsula, and the Oldest Teleosts from Antarctica. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30:1331-1342 [M. Clapham/C. Feng/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 117161: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.09.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
"Leptolepidae indet." = Leptolepididae
"Leptolepidae indet." = Leptolepididae Owen 1859 |