Also known as Locality C, Mount King, Alexander Island, Antarctica

Where: Antarctica (69.9° S, 69.4° W: paleocoordinates 64.2° S, 127.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Serpukhovian to Serpukhovian (330.9 - 315.2 Ma)

• The position of the mount King beds within a higher lithostratigraphic framework is uncertain at present. The may be assigned to the LeMay Group (Burn 1984) of Alexander Island or to the Trinity Peninsula Group (Aide 1957) of the Antarctic Peninsula, or perhaps represent a completely new lithostratigraphical unit. However, there are problems with each of these alternatives.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, shelly/skeletal mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: All specimens collected in this study are housed at the British Antarctic Survey palaeontological collections in Cambridge

Primary reference: S. R. A. Kelly, P. A. Doubleday, C. H. C. Brunton, J. M. Dickins, G. D. Sevastopulo and P. D. Taylor. 2001. First Carboniferous and ?Permian marine macrofaunas from Antarctica and their tectonic implications. Journal of the Geological Society of London 158(2):219-232 [J. Alroy/C. Simpson/C. Simpson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 41805: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Carl Simpson on 20.07.2004

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