Where: Antarctica (66.0° S, 60.6° W: paleocoordinates 56.3° S, 32.6° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Latady Formation, Kimmeridgian to Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 145.0 Ma)

• "early Tithonian" is used in a local, Antarctic sense. It refers to the perisphinctid-dominated ammonite fauna which occurs in the lower levels of the extensive Himalia Ridge Formation, Fossil Bluff Group, Alexander Island.

Environment/lithology: foreshore; lithified, fine-grained, medium, volcaniclastic, gray sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace, recrystallized

Collection methods: all specimens are housed in the collections of the Geoscience Division, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge

Primary reference: T. R. Riley, J. A. Crame, M. R. A. Thomson and D. J. Cantrill. 1997. Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian) macrofossil assemblage from Jason Peninsula, Graham Land: evidence for a significant northward extension of the Latady Formation. Antarctic Science 9(4):434-442 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 36767: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 15.02.2004

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