Where: Antarctica (64.3° S, 56.8° W: paleocoordinates 62.6° S, 67.3° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pachydiscus ootacodensis ammonoid zone, Lopez de Bertodano Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Lopez de Bertodano Fm, which is unconformably overlain by the Sobral Fm (Danian). AGE: Maastrichtian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy; Gunnarites antarcticus-Pachydiscus ultimus zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position in formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified, sandy siltstone and lithified, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Collected by Macellari; reposited in the OSU
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: C. E. Macellari. REPOSITORY: Ohio State University
Primary reference: C. E. Macellari. 1986. Late Campanian-Maastrichtian ammonite fauna from Seymour Island (Antarctic Peninsula). The Paleontological Society Memoir 18:1-59 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 82951: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.08.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
"Diplomoceras lambi" = Diplomoceras cylindraceum
"Diplomoceras lambi" = Diplomoceras cylindraceum Defrance 1816 ammonite | |
Maorites seymourianus Kilian and Reboul 1909 ammonite | |
"Kitchinites (Kitchinites) darwini" = Kitchinites darwini
"Kitchinites (Kitchinites) darwini" = Kitchinites darwini Steinmann 1895 ammonite |