Southern Seymour island (Cretaceous to of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (64.3° S, 56.9° W: paleocoordinates 62.3° S, 67.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: López de Bertodano Formation, Late/Upper Campanian to Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 61.6 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; poorly lithified, gray, silty, sandy siltstone and lithified, muddy mudstone

• The Formation consists predominantly of poorly consolidated, grey sandy silts with mud-rich units in the lower part, some fine-grained, often calcareous sandstone beds throughout the section, and glauconite beds in the uppermost part.

Size class: microfossils

• Other: Palynomorphs

Preservation: soft parts, original sporopollenin

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, hydrochloric, hydroflouric,

• Repository: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Wasington, DC

Primary reference: R. A. Askin. 1994. Monosulcate angiosperm pollen from the López de Bertodano Formation (Upper Campanian-Maastrichtian-Danian) of Seymour Island, Antarctica. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 81:151-164 [C. Jaramillo/P. Santamarina]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 151074: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Patricio Santamarina on 20.09.2013, edited by Carlos Jaramillo

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Magnoliopsida
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Angiospermae
 Mesangiosperms - Liliaceae
 Arecales -
 Mesangiosperms - Arecaceae
Arecipites cf. waitakiensis Mildenhall and Pocknall 1989 palm
 Chloranthales - Chloranthaceae
 Canellales - Winteraceae
Drimys indet. Forster and Forster 1775 magnoliids