CRP-1 Drillhole: 32.15-32.05m (Pleistocene of Antarctica)

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

• Assemblage is typical of modern shelf/bank environment, probably exceeding 100m, and possibly in the range of 100-200m
• Carbontae-rich unit.

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

• Exhaustive for mollusca
unclassified
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Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Skeneidae
Lissotesta sp. Iredale 1915 snail
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Trochidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 top snail
 Lepetellida - Anatomidae
 Vanikoroidea - Eulimidae
Melanella sp. Bowdich 1822 snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Trophon sp. Montfort 1810 murex snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Capulidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Eatoniellidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Newtoniellidae
 Patellida - Lepetidae
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Philobryidae
Philobrya sublaevis Pelseneer 1903 clam
 Pectinida - Limidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Adamussium sp. Thiele 1934 scallop
 Carditida - Carditidae
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Sclerodomidae
 Cheilostomata - Cellariidae
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Tubuliporidae
Tubuliporidae indet. Johnston 1838
Polychaeta
 Serpulimorpha -