Sandwich Bluff, Vega Island (Cretaceous of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (63.9° S, 57.6° W: paleocoordinates 62.2° S, 68.0° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Sandwich Bluff Member (López de Bertodano Formation), Late/Upper Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• Specimens found in the upper third of the Sandwich Bluff Member, originally Unit C of Lopez de Bertodano Fm.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, fine-grained, ferruginous sandstone

• "nearshore marine"
• "fine-grained, loosely consolidated sandstones"

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by D. Chaney in 1998; reposited in the MLP

Collection methods: surface (float),

Primary reference: J. A. Case, J. E. Martin, D. S. Chaney, M. Reguero, S. A. Marenssi, S. M. Santillana, and M. O. Woodburne. 2000. The first duck-billed dinosaur (family Hadrosauridae) from Antarctica. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 20(3):612-614 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 51900: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 30.06.2005, edited by Jonathan Tennant

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Taxonomic list

Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Hadrosauridae
Hadrosauridae indet. Cope 1869 hadrosaurid