Behrendt Mountains, outcrop 1 (Univ Tasmania coll): Middle Callovian - Late Callovian, Antarctica
collected by P. Quilty 1966

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Leptolepidiformes - Leptolepididae
see common names

Geography
Country:Antarctica
Coordinates: 75.4° South, 75.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:69.4° South, 0.1° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Middle Jurassic
Stage: Callovian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 5
Key time interval: Middle Callovian - Late Callovian
Age range of interval: 165.3 - 161.5 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Latady Formation:Hauberg Mountains
Stratigraphy comments: It is late middle—late Callovian in age based on ammonites and Retroceramus galoi
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified sandstone
Secondary lithology: lithified mudstone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:P. Quilty Collection dates:1966
Collection method comments: One specimen was collected from the Hauberg Mountains Formation in 1965–1966 and housed in the Geology Department, University of Tasmania. Collector assumed to be Quilty, who was at the University of Tasmania.
Metadata
Database number:117161
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:vertebrate
Created:2011-09-16 10:28:01 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2011-09-16 10:28:01
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
37654. G. Arratia and D. C. H. Hikuroa. 2010. Jurassic Fishes from the Latady Group, Antarctic Peninsula, and the Oldest Teleosts from Antarctica. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30:1331-1342 [M. Clapham/C. Feng/M. Clapham]