Seymour Island S-16 (Cretaceous to of Antarctica)

Where: Seymour Island, Antarctica (64.2° S, 56.7° W: paleocoordinates 63.1° S, 66.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sobral Formation, Maastrichtian to Maastrichtian (72.1 - 56.0 Ma)

• Probably the same unit from which Seymour Island marine inverts came from (from Ref. #145)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: S. A. Hall. 1977. Cretaceous and Tertiary dinoflagellates from Seymour Island, Antarctica. Nature 267:239-241 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 31362: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 08.05.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Dinophyceae
 Gonyaulacales - Goniodomaceae
Eisenackia sp. Deflandre and Cookson 1955
 Dinoflagellata -