Where: Antarctica (64.2° S, 57.8° W: paleocoordinates 62.5° S, 68.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: 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 glacigenic diamictites and by the James Ross Island Volcanic Group. AGE: Early Maastrichtian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From a the lower (0-70 m) part of Unit A.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, silty sandstone and lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: E. B. Olivero, D. R. Martinioni, and F. J. Mussel. REPOSITORY: Not stated, but presumably the Centro de Investigaciones en Recurso Geologicos (CIRGEO)..
Primary reference: E. B. Olivero, D. R. Martinioni, and F. J. 1992. Upper Cretaceous sedimentology and biostratigraphy of western Cape Lamb (Vega Island, Antarctica). Implications of sedimentary cycles and evolution of the basin. Geologia de la Isla James Ross 47-166 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 83550: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.08.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Echinoidea | |
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Cirripedia | |
Cirripedia indet. barnacle | |
Malacostraca | |
Decapoda indet. Latreille 1802 decapod | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Eunaticina arctowskiana moon snail | |
Perissoptera sp. Tate 1865 snail | |
Scaphander sp. Monfort 1810 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
Eutrephoceras sp. Hyatt 1894 | |
"Diplomoceras lambi" = Diplomoceras cylindraceum
"Diplomoceras lambi" = Diplomoceras cylindraceum Defrance 1816 ammonite | |
Kossmaticeratidae indet. Spath 1922 ammonite
? Maorites sp. Marshall 1926 ammonite
Jacobites cf. crofti Spath 1953 ammonite
Gunnarites antarcticus Weller 1903 ammonite | |
Pseudophyllites loryi Kilian and Reboul 1909 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop | |
"Pycnodonte cf. vesiculosa" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis vesiculosa
"Pycnodonte cf. vesiculosa" = Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis vesiculosa Sowerby 1822 oyster | |
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Cucullaea sp. Lamarck 1801 clam
Cucullaea antarctica Wilckens 1907 clam | |
"Nordenskjoldia nordenskjoldi" = Grammatodon (Nordenskjoldia)
"Nordenskjoldia nordenskjoldi" = Grammatodon (Nordenskjoldia) clam | |
Modiolus pontotocensis mussel | |
Panopea sp. Menard 1807 clam
Panopea clausa Wilckens 1910 clam | |
Pholadomya gracilis clam | |
Thracia sp. Blainville 1824 clam | |
Lahillia sp. Cossmann 1899 clam | |
? Cyclorisma sp. Dall 1902 venus clam | |
Eriphyla sp. Gabb 1864 clam | |
Oistotrigonia pygoscelium Wilckens 1910 clam | |
"Eselaevitrigonia regina" = Laevitrigonia (Eselaevitrigonia)
"Eselaevitrigonia regina" = Laevitrigonia (Eselaevitrigonia) clam | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Sedentaria | |
Rotularia dorsolaevis Ball 1960 | |
Anthozoa | |
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