Profile 2; Layer 2 - Gazdzicki and Halina (1984) (Pliocene of Antarctica)

Also known as Profile 2; Layer 2

Where: Antarctica (62.3° S, 59.0° W: paleocoordinates 62.1° S, 58.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Low Head Member (Polonez Cove Formation), Pliocene (5.3 - 2.6 Ma)

• The sequence is about 2 m thick, comprises weathered basalt conglomerate. Glaciomarine strata of the Polonez Cover Formation rest on basalts of the Mazurek Point Formattion, and are overlain by porphyritic lavas alternating with tuffs and agglomerates of the Boy Point Fortmation. The Polonez Cover Formation comprises four lithostratigraphic members, of which the lowest, the Karakowiak Glacier Mbr, consists of non-marine tillites, while the succeeding three members, the Low Head Mbr, the Siklawa Mbr, and the Oberek Cliff Mbr, are glaciomarine strata. The Low Head Mbr is the richest fossil-bearing unit of the Polonez Cove Formation and is represented by up to 15 m of ungraded conglomerates, consisting mainly of angular and subrounded basalt fragments, with ice-rafted dropstones, with common Chlamys coquina. The Pliocene age is suggested on the basis of macrofaunal similarity with Antarctic mainland assemblages, and from microfossils

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; shelly/skeletal conglomerate

• Glacio-marine strata, including ice-rafted dropstones.
• The Polonez Cove Formation is represented by up to 15 m of ungraded conglomerates, consisting mainly of angular and subrounded basalt fragments, with ice-rafted dropstones, with common Chlamys coquina.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by Gazdzicki and others in 1978-1979, 1980-1981

Primary reference: A. Gazdzicki and H. Pugaczewska. 1984. Biota of the "Pecten Conglomerate" (Polenez Cove Formation, Pliocene) of King George Island (South Shetland Islands, Antarctica). Studia Geologica Polonica 79:59-120 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41578: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 16.07.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Includes all taxa mentioned in paper (coccoliths, diatoms, chrysomonads, foraminifers, worms, bryozoans, brachiopods, bivalves, gastropods, ostracods, crinoids, ophiuroids, echinoids)
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Pecten cf. centralis" = Jorgechlamys centralis
"Pecten cf. centralis" = Jorgechlamys centralis Sowerby 1846 scallop
 Pholadida - Corbulidae
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Pasytheidae
 Cheilostomata - Cryptosulidae
Cryptosula sp. Canu and Bassler 1925
 Cheilostomata - Microporidae
Micropora coriacea Johnston 1847
 Cheilostomata - Lepraliellidae
"Holoporella cf. albirostris" = Celleporaria, "Holoporella cf. parvula" = Celleporaria
"Holoporella cf. albirostris" = Celleporaria
"Holoporella cf. parvula" = Celleporaria
 Cheilostomata - Romancheinidae
 Cheilostomata - Bryocryptellidae
 Cheilostomata - Cellariidae
"Cellaria crassa" = Cellaria, Cellaria cf. fistulosa, "Melicerita sp." = Cellaria
"Cellaria crassa" = Cellaria
Cellaria cf. fistulosa Linnaeus 1758
"Melicerita sp." = Cellaria Ellis and Solander 1786
 Cheilostomata - Porinidae
 Cheilostomata - Smittinidae
 Cheilostomata - Celleporidae
 Cheilostomata - Phidoloporidae
Hippopozoon sp., "Sertella cf. cellulosa" = Reteporella cellulosa
"Sertella cf. cellulosa" = Reteporella cellulosa Linnaeus 1767
Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Lichenoporidae
 Cyclostomata - Multisparsidae
 Cyclostomata - Diastoporidae
Spiropora sp. Lamouroux 1821
 Cyclostomata - Fasciculiporidae
 Cyclostomata - Cerioporidae
 Cyclostomata - Horneridae