Seymour Island, Cape Wiman, La Meseta Formation, Telm 1 (Eocene of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (64.2° S, 56.6° W: paleocoordinates 63.4° S, 63.7° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Telm 1 Member (La Meseta Formation), Ypresian (56.0 - 47.8 Ma)

• Late Early Eocene

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified siltstone and lithified sandstone

• red-brown siltstones and sandstones associated with a megabreccia facies

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: J. Stolarski. 1996. Paleogene corals from Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Palaeontologia Polonica 55:51-63 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 75457: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 10.10.2007, edited by Amanda Doyle

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum sp.
Flabellum sp. Lesson 1831 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Caryophyllia sp., Crispatotrochus antarcticus
Caryophyllia sp. Lamarck 1801 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
Tubastraea sp.
Tubastraea sp. Lesson 1829 stony coral
Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Austrocidaris seymourensis
Austrocidaris seymourensis Radwanska 1996 pencil urchin