South Shetland Islands, W Antartica, Destruction Bay Fm (Miocene of Antarctica)
Where: Antarctica (62.0° S, 57.7° W: paleocoordinates 61.7° S, 56.8° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Destruction Bay Formation, Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; sandstone
• 3 m thick set of green coarse-grained basaltic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: B. Studencka. 1991. A new species of genus Panopea (Bivalvia) from King George Island, Antarctica. Polish polar research 12(3):363-368 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 181517: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 15.09.2016
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Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia | |
Panopea (Panopea) andreae n. sp. Studencka 1991 clam
Panopea (Panopea) aff. worthingtoni Hutton 1973 clam | |
Eurhomalea cf. antarctica Sharman and Newton 1897 venus clam
Eurhomalea cf. newtoni Wilckens 1911 venus clam |