Where: Antarctica (64.3° S, 54.7° W: paleocoordinates 64.3° S, 56.4° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: La Meseta Formation, Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)
• Probably the same unit from which Seymour Island marine inverts came from (from Ref. #145), multiple levels were sampled, approx 200 m sampled in total
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale and sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: 200m of stratigraphic section represented
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 31366: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 08.05.2003
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Dinophyceae | |
Thalassiphora sp. Eisenack and Gocht 1960 | |
Aiora fenestrata Cookson and Eisenack 1960 | |
Cyclopsiella sp. Drugg and Loeblich 1967 acritarchs | |
Angiospermae | |
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"Gramineae indet." = Poaceae
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Aves | |
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