Bibby Point, D.8346, James Ross Island, Whisky Bay Formation (Cretaceous of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (63.8° S, 58.0° W: paleocoordinates 68.9° S, 50.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Whisky Bay Formation (Gustav Group), Late/Upper Albian (105.3 - 99.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siltstone and lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. R. Sandy. 1991. Cretaceous brachiopods from James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula, and their paleobiogeographic affinities. Journal of Paleontology 65(3):396-411 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63942: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 28.08.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Dinophyceae
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Diconodinium cristatum Cookson and Eisenack 1974
 Gonyaulacales - Ceratiaceae
  - Palaeoperidinioideae
Chichaouadinium boydii Bujak and Davies 1983
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae