Bean Peaks, locality 8, Orville Coast (Jurassic to of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (75.9° S, 69.9° W: paleocoordinates 62.9° S, 16.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Latady Formation, Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• Latady Formation: alternation of dark sandstones, siltstones, clay and shales

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Dr P. D. Rowley, Dr M. R. A. Thomson in 1977-78

• fossils are housed in the collections of the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge

Primary reference: J. Mutterlose. 1986. Upper Jurassic belemnites from the Orville Coast, Western Antarctica, and their palaeobiogeographical significance. Br. Antarct. Surv. Bull. (70)1-22 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62949: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 02.08.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Mesohibolitidae
Hibolithes aff. marwicki belemnite
H. aff. marwicki marwicki
Hibolithes sp. Mayer-Eymar 1883 belemnite
 Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae