Upper López de Bertodano Fm, 400-500 m (Cretaceous of Antarctica)

Where: Seymour Island, Antarctica (64.3° S, 56.7° W: paleocoordinates 62.6° S, 67.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Primary reference: J. D. Witts, V. C. Bowman, P. B. Wignall, J. A. Crame, J. E. Francis and R. J. Newton. 2015. Evolution and extinction of Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous) cephalopods from the López de Bertodano Formation, Seymour Island, Antarctica. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 418:193-212 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 166007: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 02.02.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Kossmaticeratidae
Maorites tuberculatus Howard 1958 ammonite
Maorites seymourianus Kilian and Reboul 1909 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Diplomoceratidae
Diplomoceras cylindraceum Defrance 1816 ammonite