Calcareous grit sequence, South Orkney Islands (Jurassic to of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (60.7° S, 45.2° W: paleocoordinates 60.7° S, 45.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Jurassic to Late/Upper Jurassic (161.5 - 100.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; pebbly, gray sandstone and fine-grained conglomerate

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: M. R. A. Thomson. 1981. Late Mesozoic stratigraphy and invertebrate palaeontology of the South Orkney Isalnds. British Antarctic Survey Bulletin (54)65-83 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 36802: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 16.02.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
? Belemnopsis sp. Bayle 1878 belemnite
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra sp. Say 1820 oyster
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma sp. Meek and Hayden 1865 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop
 Pectinida - Neitheoidae
? Neithea sp. Drouet 1824 scallop
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
? Trigonia sp. Bruguière 1789 clam
 Cardiida - Cardiidae
? Protocardia sp. Beyrich 1845 cockle
unclassified
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Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
Echinoidea
 Echinoida -
Echinoida indet. Troschel 1872 sea urchin