Bahía Holluschickie-Bahía Villar Fabre [upper Kotick Point Fm]: Albian, Antarctica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
cf. Eogunarites sp.
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Aegocrioceratidae
Peltocrioceras sp. Spath 1924
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Kossmaticeratidae
cf. Wellmanites zelandicus
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Silesitidae
"Silesites" cf. antarcticus
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Beudanticeratidae
Beudanticeras sp. Hitzell 1902
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Tetragonitidae
Tetragonites heterosulcatus (Anthula 1899)
recombined as Tetragonites (Tetragonites) heterosulcatum
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceratidae indet. Neumayr 1875
Cephalopoda - Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phyllopachyceras sp. Spath 1925
Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Nautilidae
Cymatoceras cf. virgatum (Spengler 1910)
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
Sphaera sp. Sowerby 1822
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Buchiidae
Aucellina sp. Pompeckj 1901
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814
Anopaea sp. Eichwald 1861
unclassified
"Kossmaticeras" meseticum Bonarelli 1921
recombined as Bonarelliceras meseticum
see common names

Geography
Country:Antarctica
Coordinates: 64.2° South, 57.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:67.5° South, 48.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Albian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 4
Key time interval:Albian
Age range of interval:113.00000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Kotick Point
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Kotick Point Fm, which is regionally overlain by the Whisky Bay Fm (Albian-Coniacian). AGE: Albian, on the basis of ammonite biostratigraphy; here placed in the Albian on the basis of stratigraphic position. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From beds in upper part of the section.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandy conglomerate
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Sandy conglomerate beds, based on Figure 5 of Medina et al. (1992). LITHIFICATION: Assumed to be lithified.
Environment:offshore
Geology comments: ENVIRONMENT: Offshore siliciclastic marine setting.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some genera
Collection methods:surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Presumably the authors, F. A. Medina, L. Buatois, A. Lopez Angriman. REPOSITORY: Not stated in text.
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Not exhaustive but inclusive of representative and biostratigraphically important ammonoidea, bivalvia, and other taxa. Other taxa may be present, but were not listed in present biostratigraphic treatment. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, but with fairly modern nomenclature and species-resolution identifications where listed.
Metadata
Database number:83557
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Modifier:A. Hendy Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2008-08-22 07:57:42 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2008-08-22 07:57:42
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
28033. F. A. Medina, L. Buatois, and A. Lopez Angriman. 1992. Estratigrafia del Grupo Gustav en la Isla James Ross, Antartida. Geologia de la Isla James Ross 167-192 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]