ZPAL 12, Sadler Stacks, Telm7 (Eocene of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (64.2° S, 56.6° W: paleocoordinates 64.3° S, 58.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Telm 6 Member (La Meseta Formation), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified, fine-grained sandstone and poorly lithified, argillaceous, conglomeratic siltstone

• low-energy, shallow-marine environment
• Telm6 and Telm7 are medium to fine-grained sandstones with intervals of laminated fine-grained sand and silty clay

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Andrzej Gazdzicki

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

•(ZPAL Bp.XXXVII)

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 152878: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 01.12.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
"Lingula antarctica" = Glottidia antarctica
"Lingula antarctica" = Glottidia antarctica Buckman 1910
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Liothyrella anderssoni