Where: Antarctica (79.8° S, 55.0° W: paleocoordinates 79.8° S, 55.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Fossil Bluff Formation, Late/Upper Aptian to Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 109.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Fossil Bluff Formation. AGE: ?Late Aptian to Early Albian. Justification not stated, presumably based on Belemnite and Ammonoid index taxa. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Collectio lies within upper c. 1.2 km of the approximately 4 km thick formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BAS

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: Members of British Antarctic Survey. REPOSITORY: British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge. Some material reposited in BMNH, GSSA (Geological Survey of S Australia), HM (Hunterian Museum, Glascow), MUGD (Melbourne University Geology Dept.), NMV (National Museum of Victoria), SAM (South Australian Museum), and SM (Sedgewick Museum, Cambridge).

Primary reference: E. Perez, M.R. Cooper, and V. Covacevich. 1990. Aptian ammonite-based age for the Pabellon Formation, Atacama region, northern Chile. Revista Geologica de Chile 17(2):181-185 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64184: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.09.2006

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