Nunataks 11 km south of Wilkins Mts, Orville Coast (Jurassic of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (75.7° S, 66.5° W: paleocoordinates 62.2° S, 17.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Latady Formation, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• Latady Formation: alternation of dark sandstones, siltstones, clay and shales

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Dr P. D. Rowley, Dr M. R. A. Thomson in 1977-78

Primary reference: M. R. A. Thomson. 1983. Late Jurassic ammonites from the Orville Coast, Antarctica. 315-319 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 76461: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 21.11.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Oppeliidae indet.
Oppeliidae indet. Bonarelli 1894 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Virgatosphinctes "sp. B"
Virgatosphinctes "sp. B" Uhlig 1910 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
Aspidoceras sp.
Aspidoceras sp. Zittel ammonite