Site 270, Unit 2, 150-200 m (Oligocene to of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (81.3° S, 178.5° W: paleocoordinates 82.5° S, 175.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Oligocene to Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 16.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; silty claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. K. Dell and C. A. Fleming. 1975. Oligocene–Miocene bivalve Mollusca and other macrofossils from Sites 270 and 272 (Ross Sea), DSDP, Leg 28. Ubutaku Reports of the Deep Sea Drilling Project 28:693-703 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 181577: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 19.09.2016

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Proneptunea sp. Thiele 1912 true whelk
Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Malletia indet., "Yoldiella cf. sabrina" = Malletia sabrina
Malletia indet. des Moulins 1832 clam
"Yoldiella cf. sabrina" = Malletia sabrina Hedley 1916 clam
 Thraciida - Periplomatidae
Periploma (? Pendaloma) indet. Schumacher 1816 clam
 Arcida - Limopsidae
Bryozoa
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