Spartan Glacier3 (Antarctica): Aptian, Antarctica
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonitida
- Oppeliidae
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Sanmartinoceras sp.
Bonarelli 1921
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Buchiidae
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Aucellina sp.
Pompeckj 1901
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| originally entered as "Aucellina spp." | ||||||||||
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unclassified
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Zoophycus sp.
Massalongo 1855
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| corrected as Zoophycos | ||||||||||
| originally entered as "Zoophycos sp." | ||||||||||
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Chondrites sp.
von Sternberg 1833
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Palaeophycus sp.
Hall 1847
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Planolites sp.
Nicholson 1873
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Geography
| Country: | Antarctica | State/province: | Alexander Island |
| Coordinates: | 70.8° South, 68.5° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 69.4° South, 44.9° West | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Aptian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 3 | *Epoch: | Gallic |
| Key time interval: | Aptian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 121.40000 - 113.00000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Spartan Glacier | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: fossils in this formation are divided into three faunas that span from Valanginian through Aptian | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | "shale" |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 2078 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky | Enterer: | K. Layou | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-06-21 11:09:24 | Last modified: | 1999-06-21 16:06:58 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:14 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 58. | P. J. Butterworth, J. A. Crame, P. J. Howlett and D. I. M. Macdonald. 1988. Lithostratigraphy of Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous strata of eastern Alexander Island, Antarctica. Cretaceous Research 9(3):249-264 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/A. Clement] |