Where: Antarctica (64.2° S, 56.6° W: paleocoordinates 63.4° S, 63.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Cucullaea I Member (La Meseta Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• The humerus MLP 13-IX-28-385 was collected at the fossil locality IAA 2/13 (also informally known as “Simil RV”) which encompasses outcropping levels of Cucullaea I Allomember (Ypresian). These beds are correlated with DPV 6/84 (= RV 8200 for woodburne & zinsMeister, 1984), belonging to levels deposited above to the Naticid gastropods levels.

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: C. Acosta Hospitaleche, M. Reguero, and S. Santillana. 2017. Aprosdokitos mikrotero gen. et sp. nov., the tiniest Sphenisciformes that lived in Antarctica during the Paleogene. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie 283(1):25-34 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 52067: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 18.07.2005

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