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 48433: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.03.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Prosipho cancellatus true whelk
Prosipho priestleyi true whelk
Prosipho cf. mundus true whelk
Pareuthria innocens true whelk | |
Lissotesta sp. Iredale 1915 snail | |
Trochidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 top snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Mysella sp. Angas 1877 clam | |
Limatula sp. Wood 1839 file clam | |
Stenolaemata | |
Tubuliporidae indet. Johnston 1838 | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Polychaeta | |
Sedentaria | |
Spirorbis sp. Daudin 1800 |