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 48434: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.03.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Lissotesta sp. Iredale 1915 snail | |
Trochidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 top snail | |
Anatoma euglypta snail | |
Melanella sp. Bowdich 1822 snail | |
Turritellopsis latior turret shell | |
Pareuthria innocens, Prosipho cf. mundus, Prosipho priestleyi, Prosipho cancellatus, Prosipho contrarius
Pareuthria innocens true whelk
Prosipho cf. mundus true whelk
Prosipho priestleyi true whelk
Prosipho cancellatus true whelk
Prosipho contrarius true whelk | |
Trophon sp. Montfort 1810 murex snail | |
Capulus subcompressus snail | |
Eatoniella glacialis snail | |
Eumetula strebeli snail
Eumetula austrina snail | |
Iothia coppingeri limpet | |
Bivalvia | |
Philobrya sublaevis Pelseneer 1903 clam | |
Limatula sp. Wood 1839 file clam
Limatula (Antarctolima) hodgsoni file clam
Limatula (Limatula) simillima file clam | |
Adamussium sp. Thiele 1934 scallop | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Stenolaemata | |
Tubuliporidae indet. Johnston 1838 | |
Polychaeta | |