Selene Nunatak Formation, Alexander Island, Antarctic Peninsula - KG.4640: Pliensbachian - Toarcian, Antarctica
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Trigoniida
- Myophorellidae
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Vaugonia (Vaugonia) sp.
Crickmay 1930
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1 specimen | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Antarctica |
| Coordinates: | 71.0° South, 68.5° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 61.5° South, 14.2° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Jurassic |
| Key time interval: | Pliensbachian - Toarcian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 192.90000 - 174.70000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Selene Nunatak | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: KG.4640 |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified mudstone | ||
| Environment: | marine indet. | Tectonic setting: | forearc basin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | mechanical |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: All Specimens are housed in the British Anatrctic Survey Palaeontological Collections, Cambridge | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 36788 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | S. Nurnberg |
| Modifier: | A. Khan | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-02-16 02:16:11 | Last modified: | 2013-08-20 16:55:41 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-02-16 02:16:11 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 9855. | S. R. A. Kelly. 1995. New trigonoid bivalves from the early Jurassic to earliest Cretaceous of the Antarctic Peninsula region: systematics and austral paleobiogeography. Journal of Paleontology 69(1):66-84 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg] |