Also known as UCMP RV9501

Where: Antarctica (64.2° S, 56.7° W: paleocoordinates 63.5° S, 62.9° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Telm 5 Member (La Meseta Formation), Ypresian to Ypresian (56.0 - 41.3 Ma)

• Uppermost levels of the Submeseta Allomember ...Anthropornis nordenskjoeldi

•Biozone (Cenizo 2012). Per UCMP/UCR records, said to be Telm 5. Kloess et al. 2020 estimate age of 51.3–49.1 Ma.

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

• Originally part of University of California-Riverside collections.

Primary reference: M. M. Cenizo. 2012. Review of the putative Phorusrhacidae from the Cretaceous and Paleogene of Antarctica: new records of ratites and pelagornithid birds. Polish Polar Research 33(3):225-244 [J. Zijlstra/J. Zijlstra/P. Holroyd]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183434: authorized by Patricia Holroyd, entered by Patricia Holroyd on 21.12.2016

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