Cockburn Island (Eocene of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (64.2° S, 56.8° W: paleocoordinates 64.2° S, 58.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Eocene (37.2 - 33.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; sandstone

• glauconitic sands

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: W. J. Zinsmeister and J. D. Stilwell. 1990. First record of the family Ringiculidae (Gastropoda) from the middle Tertiary of Antarctica. Journal of Paleontology 64(3):373-376 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 175585: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 16.12.2015

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Ringicula (Ringicula) cockburnensins n. sp. Zinsmeister and Stilwell 1990 snail