Low Island, South Shetland Islands, locality 2: Tithonian - Berriasian, Antarctica
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonoidea
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Ammonoidea indet.
Zittel 1884
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Belemnitida
- Mesohibolitidae
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Hibolithes sp.
Mayer-Eymar 1883
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2 specimens | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Antarctica |
| Coordinates: | 63.3° South, 62.1° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 55.2° South, 39.5° West |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic - Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late Jurassic - Early Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Tithonian - Berriasian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 6 - Cretaceous 1 |
| Key time interval: | Tithonian - Berriasian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 149.2 - 139.8 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | tuffaceous lithified mudstone |
| Lithology description: erratic fauna in loose blocks of tuffaceous mudstone | |
| Environment: | offshore |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | poor |
| Spatial resolution: | allochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 68362 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Aberhan | Enterer: | S. Nurnberg |
| Modifier: | S. Nurnberg | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-01-17 06:41:06 | Last modified: | 2007-01-17 08:48:43 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-01-17 06:41:06 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 19676. | M. R. A. Thomson. 1982. Late Jurassic fossils from Low Island, south Shetland Islands. Br. Antarct. Surv. Bull. (56)25-35 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg] |