Station E-83, Seymour Island (Cretaceous of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (64.3° S, 56.8° W: paleocoordinates 62.6° S, 67.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pachydiscus riccardi ammonoid zone, Lopez de Bertodano Formation, Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the OSU

• Repository: Ohio State University

Primary reference: C. E. Macellari. 1986. Late Campanian-Maastrichtian ammonite fauna from Seymour Island (Antarctic Peninsula). The Paleontological Society Memoir 18:1-59 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 158416: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.07.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Kitchinites (Kitchinites) laurae Macellari 1986 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Kossmaticeratidae
Maorites densicostatus Kilian and Reboul 1909 ammonite