Seymour Island, SI-340 (Cretaceous of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (64.3° S, 56.8° W: paleocoordinates 62.5° S, 67.5° W)

When: Lopez de Bertodano Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore; 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 57561: authorized by Cinzia Cervato, entered by Cinzia Cervato on 13.12.2005

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Taxonomic list

Dinophyceae
 Gonyaulacales - Gonyaulacaceae
Protozoa
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Chrysophyceae
 Phytomastigophora - Dictyochaceae
Biddulphia
  - Biddulphiaceae
Hemiaulus
  - Biddulphiaceae
Bacillariophyceae
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 Centrales - Eupodiscaceae
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 Coscinodiscales - Coscinodiscaceae
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 Rhizosoleniales - Rhizosoleniaceae
 Melosirales - Stephanopyxidaceae