Where: Antarctica (64.3° S, 56.8° W: paleocoordinates 62.5° S, 67.5° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lopez de Bertodano Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Lopez de Bertodano Fm, which is unconformably overlain by the Sobral Fm (Danian). AGE: Early-Late Maastrichtian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy; upper part of the Pachydiscus ootacodensis-P. ultimus zones. 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 82974: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.08.2008

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