E 94-36, Seymour Island (Eocene to of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (64.2° S, 56.6° W: paleocoordinates 64.0° S, 60.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: La Meseta Formation, Lutetian to Lutetian (47.8 - 33.9 Ma)

• Location places it within Telm6-Telm7.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; unlithified sandstone

• From Stillwell & Zinsmeister (1992): For Telm6 and 7, "the sum of evidence is in support of a shallow, protected lagoonal setting with open bays behind barrier islands with tidal channels and depressions in which shell material and coarse sediment were occasionally concentrated during catastrophic events, such as storms rearranging the channels and covering regions of the lagoon bottom with new layers of silty sediments."
• sand below burrowed, indurated interval

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. B. Blake and R. B. Aronson. 1998. Eocene stelleroids (Echinodermata) at Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Journal of Paleontology 72(2):339-353 [L. Ivany/E. Kowalski/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203502: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.08.2019

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Taxonomic list

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Asteroidea
 Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Ctenophoraster downeyae
Ctenophoraster downeyae Blake and Zinsmeister 1979 sea star