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
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 | |
Dimitobelus sp. Whitehouse 1925 belemnite |