M.1159, Annenkov Island (Cretaceous to of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands)

Where: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (54.5° S, 37.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Annankov Island Formation, Late/Upper Aptian to Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 100.5 Ma)

• "Believed to indicate an upper Aptian or more probably Albian (or younger) age."Stratified sequence is 15 m thick, but the fossils are restricted to the middle 5 m.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, volcaniclastic sandstone

• Volcaniclastic sandstones and breccias

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. H. Pettigrew and L. E. Willey. 1975. Belemnite fragments from Annenkov Island. British Antarctic Survey Bulletin 40:33-36 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 209140: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 25.04.2020

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Dimitobelidae
Dimitobelus sp. Whitehouse 1925 belemnite