Also known as Locality A, Mount King, Alexander Island, Antarctica
Where: Antarctica (69.9° S, 69.3° W: paleocoordinates 64.3° S, 127.2° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mount King Formation (LeMay Group), Serpukhovian to Serpukhovian (330.9 - 315.2 Ma)
• The position of the mount King beds within a higher lithostratigraphic framework is uncertain at present. The may be assigned to the LeMay Group (Burn 1984) of Alexander Island or to the Trinity Peninsula Group (Aide 1957) of the Antarctic Peninsula, or perhaps represent a completely new lithostratigraphical unit. However, there are problems with each of these alternatives.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, bioturbated mudstone and lithified, medium-grained sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: All specimens collected in this study are housed at the British Antarctic Survey palaeontological collections in Cambridge
Primary reference: S. R. A. Kelly, P. A. Doubleday, C. H. C. Brunton, J. M. Dickins, G. D. Sevastopulo and P. D. Taylor. 2001. First Carboniferous and ?Permian marine macrofaunas from Antarctica and their tectonic implications. Journal of the Geological Society of London 158(2):219-232 [J. Alroy/C. Simpson/C. Simpson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 41799: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Carl Simpson on 20.07.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
cf. Pentaridica rothi Sea lily
cf. Cyclocaudex sp. Moore and Jeffords 1968 Sea lily | |
Platycrinitidae indet. Bassler 1938 Sea lily | |
Stenolaemata | |
Rhabdomesina indet. Astrova and Morozova 1956 | |
? Leioclema sp. Ulrich 1882 | |
Stenoporidae indet. Waagen and Wentzel 1886 | |
Bryozoa | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Spiriferida indet. Waagen 1883 | |
cf. Crurithyris sp. George 1931 | |
? Reticulariacea indet. Waagen | |
Strophomenata | |
cf. Streptorhynchus sp. King 1850 | |
unclassified | |
Annelida indet. Lamarck 1809 | |
Tergomya | |
? Metoptoma sp. Phillips 1836 | |
Bivalvia | |
? Cypricardinia sp. Hall 1860 clam | |
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Anthraconeilo sp. Girty 1912 clam | |
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Cephalopoda | |
Sueroceras sp. Riccardi and Sabattini 1975 nautiloid | |
Gastropoda | |
"Ptychomphalina cf. kuttungensis" = Montospira kuttungensis, Mourlonia sp.
"Ptychomphalina cf. kuttungensis" = Montospira kuttungensis Campbell 1961 snail
Mourlonia sp. de Koninck 1883 snail |