ZPAL 10, Sergio Point, Telm4 (Eocene of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (64.2° S, 56.7° W: paleocoordinates 63.4° S, 63.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Telm 4 Member (La Meseta Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Lutetian based on dinoflagellate biostrat and Sr isotopes (Douglas et al., 2014)

•See Kloess et al. 2020 for useful breakdown of stratigraphy of the La Peseta Formation

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; unlithified, shelly/skeletal, conglomeratic, calcareous sandstone

• high-energy environment
• The unit Telm4, which overlies the fine-grained sands of Telm2 in the south and venerid shell beds of Telm3 in the north, is characterized by relatively thick, conglomeratic Cucullaea shell beds.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Andrzej Gazdzicki

• Repository: Institute of Paleobiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Primary reference: M. A. Bitner. 1996. Brachiopods from the Eocene La Meseta Formation of Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Palaeontologia Polonica 55:65-100 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152868: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 01.12.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratellidae
Magellania antarctica
Magellania antarctica Buckman 1910
 Terebratulida - Bouchardiidae
Bouchardia antarctica
Bouchardia antarctica Buckman 1910