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 | |
Eisenackia sp. Deflandre and Cookson 1955
Hystrichosphaeridium tubiferum Deflandre 1837 | |
Palambages sp. Wetzel 1961 |