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 (90-140 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 83551: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.08.2008

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