Seymour Island, SI-123 (Paleocene of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (64.3° S, 56.8° W: paleocoordinates 63.5° S, 66.2° W)

When: Sobral Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: delta front; sandstone

Collection methods: date sample taken 1982/1984

Primary reference: D. Harwood. 1988. Upper Cretaceous and lower Paleocene diatom and silicoflagellate biostratigraphy of Seymour Island, eastern Antarctic Peninsula. Geological Society of America, Memoir 169:55-129 [C. Cervato/C. Cervato]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 57541: authorized by Cinzia Cervato, entered by Cinzia Cervato on 13.12.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Thecofilosea
 Ebriidea - Ammodochiaceae
unclassified
  -
Dinophyceae
 Gonyaulacales - Gonyaulacaceae
Hemiaulus
  - Biddulphiaceae
Bacillariophyceae
 Coscinodiscales - Heliopeltaceae
  -
Epithelion sp. Pantocsek 1905 diatom
Epithelion spp.
Pterotheca pokrovskajae diatom
Pterotheca pokrovskajae var.
 Anaulales - Anaulaceae
  -
 Rhizosoleniales - Rhizosoleniaceae
 Melosirales - Endictyaceae
 Melosirales - Melosiraceae
 Melosirales - Stephanopyxidaceae
Stephanopyxis sp. B. Ehrenberg 1845 diatom
Stephanopyxis simonseni Hajos 1974 diatom
Stephanopyxis turris Greville and Arnot 1857 diatom
  -
 Pennales -
 Centrales - Eupodiscaceae
  - Aulacodiscaceae
Aulacodiscus sp. Ehrenberg 1844 diatom
Aulacodiscus spp. fragments