Seymour Island 10: Early/Lower Paleocene, Antarctica
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Nuculida
- Nuculidae
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Nucula suboblonga
Wilckens 1907
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| recombined as Nucula (Leionucula) suboblonga | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Lahillidae
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Lahillia larseni
(Sharman and Newton 1897)
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| originally entered as "Lahilla larseni" | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Cucullaeidae
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Cucullaea ellioti
Zinsmeister and Macellari 1988
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| originally entered as "Cucllaea ellioti" | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Aporrhaidae
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Perissoptera nordenskjoldi
Wilckens 1910
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| recombined as Struthiochenopus nordenskjoldi | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Neogastropoda
- Buccinidae
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Austrosphaera patagonica
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Gastropoda
- Pleurotomariidae
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Pleurotomaria larseniana
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Polychaeta
- Sabellida
- Serpulidae
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Rotularia sp.
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| present only at base of unit | ||||||||||
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Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
(Leske 1778)
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| spines | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Antarctica | State/province: | Seymour Island |
| Coordinates: | 64.3° South, 56.8° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 63.1° South, 66.7° West | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Paleogene | Epoch: | Paleocene |
| Stage: | Danian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 1 |
| *Period: | Tertiary | *Epoch: | Early/Lower Paleocene |
| Key time interval: | Early/Lower Paleocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 66.00000 - 61.60000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Lopez de Bertodano | ||
| Local section: | A, C, D, F | Local bed: | 10 |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | green sandy siltstone |
| Environment: | prodelta |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 3175 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky | Enterer: | K. Layou | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-07-27 14:06:17 | Last modified: | 1999-07-27 17:06:17 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:18 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 145. | C. E. Macellari. 1988. Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and paleoecology of Upper Cretaceous/Paleocene shelf-deltaic sediments of Seymour Island. Geological Society of America-Memoir 169:25-53 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/M. Uhen] |