Site 270, Unit 2, 300-350 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; siltstone and claystone

• clayey siltstone

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

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Taxonomic list

Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Naticidae indet. Guilding 1834 moon snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
"Malletia aff. subaequalis" = Solenella subaequalis
"Malletia aff. subaequalis" = Solenella subaequalis Sowerby 1870 clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
"Yoldia eightsii" = Nucula eightsii, Ennucula aff. greyi
"Yoldia eightsii" = Nucula eightsii Couthouy 1839 nut clam