DPV 15/84: Priabonian, Antarctica

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Reptilia - Theropoda - Spheniscidae
Palaeeudyptes gunnari (Wiman 1905)
Bargo and Reguero 1998 1 specimen
Reptilia - Theropoda - Pelagornithidae
Pelagornithidae indet. Fürbringer 1888
Piro and Acosta Hospitaleche 2023 1 specimen
UCMP 323792
Chondrichthyes - Lamniformes - Lamnidae
Isurus praecursor Thurmond and Jones 1981
1 specimen
see common names

Geography
Country:Antarctica State/province:Seymour Island
Coordinates: 64.2° South, 56.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:64.3° South, 58.5° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Priabonian
Age range of interval:37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:La Meseta Member:Telm 7
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:estuary/bay
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Database number:100475
Authorizer:M. Uhen Enterer:M. Uhen
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:vertebrate
Created:2010-12-09 05:40:22 Last modified:2018-03-08 14:11:36
Access level:the public Released:2010-12-09 05:40:22
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

47944. A. L. Cione and M. A. Reguero. 1994. New records of the sharks Isurus and Hexanchus from the Eocene of Seymour Island, Antarctica. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 105:1-14 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

43660 C. Acosta Hospitaleche and N. Haidr. 2011. Penguin cranial remains from the Eocene La Meseta Formation, Isla Marambio (Seymour Island), Antarctic Peninsula. Antarctic Science 23(4):369-378 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
34464 M. S. Bargo and M. A. Reguero. 1998. Annotated catalogue of the fossil vertebrates from Antarctica housed in the Museo de la Plata, Argentina. I. Birds and Land Mammals from La Meseta Formation (Eocene - Early Oligocene). Associacion Paleontologica Argentina, Publicacion Especial 5:211-221 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
64969 A. Engelbrecht, T. Mörs, M. A. Reguero and J. Kriwet. 2017. New carcharhiniform sharks (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from the early to middle Eocene of Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(6):e1371724 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]
87576 A. Piro and C. Acosta Hospitaleche. 2023. The rhamphotheca of the Eocene pseudo-toothed birds from Antarctica. Historical Biology [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]