Behrendt Mountains, Ellsworth Land (Locality 10) (Jurassic to of Antarctica)

Also known as \"The specimens described are held in the collection of the Geology Department, University of Tasmania (UTGD), and the numbers given are the accession numbers in that collection." Individual specimen numbers were not recorded to the database.

Where: Antarctica (75.5° S, 72.5° W: paleocoordinates 62.1° S, 8.3° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Bajocian to Bajocian (170.3 - 167.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; siltstone and sandstone

• "The fauna occurs in dark siltstone and fine sandstone (in contrast to the Late Jurassic lithic wacke) from which almost all carbonate has been leached, probably by surface weathering processes."

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, mold/impression

Primary reference: P.G. Quilty. 1983. Bajocian bivalves from Ellsworth Land, Antarctica. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 26:395-418 [A. Miller/K. Layou/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 32724: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 14.07.2003

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Taxonomic list

• The taxon, Parallelodon sp., was found at locality 10. This species "occur[s] in both Middle and Late Jurassic faunal assemblages from Antarctica and w[as] described by Quilty (1978)" and "will not be documented further here." This occurrence was added to the taxonomic list.
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon sp. Meek and Hayden 1860 clam
Parallelodon sp. Meek and Worthen 1866 clam
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia sp. Rouillier 1845 scallop
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma trechmanni n. sp. scallop
Oxytoma sp. Meek and Hayden 1865 scallop
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis parallela n. sp. scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Spondylus sp. Linnaeus 1758 scallop
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea "sp. B" Linnaeus 1758 oyster
Ostrea "sp. C" Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya "sp. 4" Meek 1873 clam
Pleuromya milleformis Marwick 1953 clam
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813 clam
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
Anisocardia (Anisocardia) "sp. 1" Munier-Chalmas 1863 clam
Anisocardia "sp. 2" Munier-Chalmas 1863 clam
 Carditida -
"Crassatellacea indet." = Crassatelloidea
"Crassatellacea indet." = Crassatelloidea FĂ©russac 1822 clam
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Vaugonia "sp. 1" Crickmay 1930 clam