Seymour Island S-3 upper (Eocene of Antarctica)

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
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Dinophyceae
 Peridiniales - Peridiniaceae
 Peridiniales - Deflandreaceae
 Gonyaulacales - Gonyaulacaceae
Thalassiphora sp. Eisenack and Gocht 1960
  -
Aiora fenestrata Cookson and Eisenack 1960
 Life -
Cyclopsiella sp. Drugg and Loeblich 1967 acritarchs
Angiospermae
 Fagales - Nothofagaceae
Nothofagus sp. Blume 1850
"several forms" "pollen"
 Poales - Poaceae
"Gramineae indet." = Poaceae
"Gramineae indet." = Poaceae Barnhart 1895 true grass
"pollen"
Aves
 Sphenisciformes - Spheniscidae
Spheniscidae indet. Bonaparte 1831 penguin
penguin material from Simpson, 1971