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; siltstone and 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 181596: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 20.09.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Sedentaria | |
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835 | |
Gastropoda | |
Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834 moon snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Malletia aff. subaequalis" = Solenella subaequalis
"Malletia aff. subaequalis" = Solenella subaequalis Sowerby 1870 clam | |
"Yoldia eightsii" = Nucula eightsii, Ennucula aff. greyi
"Yoldia eightsii" = Nucula eightsii Couthouy 1839 nut clam
Ennucula aff. greyi nut clam |