Low Island, South Shetland Islands, locality 1a (Jurassic of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (63.3° S, 62.1° W: paleocoordinates 55.7° S, 33.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• age based on occurence of Epimayites

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, black mudstone

• indurated black mudstones

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, original calcite, replaced with pyrite, replaced with other

Primary reference: M. R. A. Thomson. 1982. Late Jurassic fossils from Low Island, south Shetland Islands. Br. Antarct. Surv. Bull. (56)25-35 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68360: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 17.01.2007

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Retroceramus ex gr. haasti Hochstetter 1863 clam
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Sphaeroceratidae
"Epimayites aff. transiens" = Epimayaites transiens
"Epimayites aff. transiens" = Epimayaites transiens Waagen 1875 ammonite
 Belemnitida - Mesohibolitidae
? Hibolithes sp. Montfort 1808 belemnite