Latady Formation, Orville Coast, Antarctic Peninsula - Th.58: Tithonian, 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 (? Orthotrigonia) quiltyi
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2 specimens | ||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Antarctica |
| Coordinates: | 75.3° South, 72.0° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 63.5° South, 19.5° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
| Stage: | Tithonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Tithonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 149.20000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Latady | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Age given as Kimmeridgian?-Tithonian. Th.58 |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified mudstone | ||
| Environment: | marine indet. | Tectonic setting: | back-arc 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: | 36791 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | S. Nurnberg |
| Modifier: | W. Kiessling | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-02-16 02:21:35 | Last modified: | 2007-05-29 14:53:17 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-02-16 02:21:35 |
| 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] |