Latady Formation, Orville Coast, Antarctic Peninsula - Th.17: Late Kimmeridgian - 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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| 1 specimen | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | Antarctica |
| Coordinates: | 75.0° South, 71.0° West (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 73.0° South, 14.2° West (Wright 2013) |
| Basis of coordinate: | estimated from map |
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late Jurassic |
| Stage: | Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 5 - Jurassic 6 |
| Key time interval: | Late Kimmeridgian - Tithonian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 152.21 - 143.1 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Latady | Formation: | Hauberg Mountains | Member: | Novocin |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Age given as Kimmeridgian?-Tithonian. Th.17 | |||||
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: | 36790 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | S. Nurnberg |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2004-02-16 02:20:45 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-02-16 02:20:45 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
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] |
Secondary references:
| 89617 | M. A. Hunter and D. J. Cantrill. 2006. A new stratigraphy for the Latady Basin, Antarctic Peninsula: Part 2, Latady Group and basin evolution. Geological Magazine 143(6):797-819 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |