Where: Antarctica (77.0° S, 163.8° E: paleocoordinates 78.0° S, 163.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)

• Sample from 3 cm length of drill core

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collection methods: core,

• No repository for collection is reported, but likely to be either Istituto di Geologia Marina, Bologna, Italy, or Dipartmneto di Biologia Evolutiva, Bologna, Italy

Primary reference: M. Taviani, A. Beu, and C. Lombardo. 1998. Pleistocene macrofossils from CRP-1 Drillhole, Victoria Land Basin, Antarctica. Terra Antarctica 5(3):485-491 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 48432: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.03.2005

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