Seymour Island, SI-362 (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 57565: authorized by Cinzia Cervato, entered by Cinzia Cervato on 13.12.2005

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Taxonomic list

Chrysophyceae
 Phytomastigophora - Dictyochaceae
Bacillariophyceae
 Melosirales - Endictyaceae
 Melosirales - Stephanopyxidaceae
Stephanopyxis sp. A. Ehrenberg 1845 diatom
Stephanopyxis sp. B. Ehrenberg 1845 diatom
Stephanopyxis sp. D. Ehrenberg 1845 diatom
Stephanopyxis turris Greville and Arnot 1857 diatom
 Melosirales - Melosiraceae
 Rhizosoleniales - Rhizosoleniaceae
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 Centrales - Eupodiscaceae
Protozoa
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