Brandy Bay-Santa Marta Cove, James Ross Island (N Sequence) (Cretaceous of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (63.9° S, 57.9° W: paleocoordinates 61.8° S, 68.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Beta Member (Santa Marta Formation), Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Upper Lower Campanian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Palaeontological Collections of the University of Buenos Aires (CPBA).

Primary reference: M. Cichowolski, A. Ambrosio, and A. Concheyro. 2005. Nautilids from the Upper Cretaceous of the James Ross Basin, Antarctic Peninsula. Antarctic Science 17:267-280 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 166183: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.02.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
"Eutrephoceras subplicatum" = Eutrephoceras dorbignyanum, Eutrephoceras antarcticum n. sp.
"Eutrephoceras subplicatum" = Eutrephoceras dorbignyanum Forbes 1846 nautiloid
Eutrephoceras antarcticum n. sp. Cichowolski et al. 2005 nautiloid