Where: Antarctica (63.3° S, 136.0° E: paleocoordinates 63.9° S, 132.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Early/Lower Eocene (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)

• The lowermost 110 meters of sediments recovered at IODP Site U1356 (895.5 to 1000.08 meters below sea floor [mbsf], lithostratigraphic Units X and XI) are dated as Early to Middle Eocene in age based on the integration of dinoflagellate cyst (dinocyst) biostratigraphy and magnetostratigraphy (Expedition 318 Scientists. Site U1356. in Escutia, C., Brinkhuis, H., Klaus, A., and the Expedition 318 Scientists. Proc. IODP 318 (2011)).

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; silty claystone and sandstone

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original sporopollenin

Collected by IODP

Collection methods: core, chemical, hydrochloric, hydroflouric,

• This research used samples and data provided by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP).

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•A total of 145 palynological samples, taken from the Eocene interval of Site U1356 at a resolution of 20-30 cm, were processed using identical protocols at the Institute of Geosciences of Goethe University Frankfurt and the Laboratory of Palaeobotany and Palynology of Utrecht University.

Primary reference: J. Pross, L. Contreras, P. K. Bijl, D. R. Greenwood, S. M. Bohaty, S. Schouten, J. A. Bendle, U. Röhl, L. Tauxe, J. I. Raine, C. E. Huck, T. Flierdt, S. S. R. Jamieson, C. E. Stickley, B. Schootbrugge, C. Escutia, H. Brinkhuis and Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. 2012. Persistent near-tropical warmth on the Antarctic continent during the early Eocene epoch. Nature (488)73-77 [C. Jaramillo/C. Jaramillo/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 169264: authorized by Carlos Jaramillo, entered by Carlos Jaramillo on 13.05.2015

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