Where: Antarctica (79.3° S, 85.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.9° S, 166.5° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Mount Wyatt Earp Formation (Crashite Group), Early/Lower Devonian (419.2 - 393.3 Ma)
• Collection thought to be from near base of formation. Fauna said to correlate most closely with Horlick Formation (see PBDB ref. 9605 and its collections).
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; micaceous, brown, sandy siltstone and gray shale
Primary reference: G. F. Webers, B. Glenister, J. Pojeta, Jr. and G. Young. 1992. Devonian fossils from the Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica. Geological Society of America Memoir 170:269-278 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35567: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 21.12.2003, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scyphozoa | |
Conulariida indet. Miller and Gurley 1896 jellyfish | |
Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite | |
Lingulata | |
Strophomenata | |
? Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830 | |
Bivalvia | |
? Grammysioidea sp. Williams 1916 clam | |
Rostroconchia | |
? Hippocardia sp. Brown 1843 | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
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Chondrichthyes | |
Machaeracanthus cf. kayseri Kegel 1913 spiny fish |