Livingston Island, President Beaches (Cretaceous of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (62.6° S, 61.2° W: paleocoordinates 50.9° S, 38.1° W)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: President Beaches Formation, Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: W. Kiessling, R. Scasso, A. Zeiss, A. Riccardi, and F. Medina. 1999. Combined radiolarian-ammonite stratigraphy for the Late Jurassic of the Antarctic Peninsula: Implications for radiolarian stratigraphy. Geodiversitas 21(4):687-713 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51832: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 22.06.2005

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
Berriasella sp. Uhlig 1905 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
? Uhligites sp. Kilian 1913 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae