Crab Creek, Melville Peninsula (Miocene of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (62.0° S, 57.6° W: paleocoordinates 61.7° S, 56.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Cape Melville Formation (Moby Dick Group), Early/Lower Miocene (23.0 - 16.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, black siltstone and lithified, silty shale

• low energy water on the outer shelf
• black siltstones and silty shales of the upper part of the sequence

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: E. Roniewicz and E. Morycowa. 1985. Fossil Flabellum (Scleractinia) of Antarctica. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 30:99-106 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 85346: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.12.2008

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Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum rariseptatum n. sp.
Flabellum rariseptatum n. sp. Roniewicz and Morycowa 1985 stony coral