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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Cape Melville Fm, which overlies the Destruction Bay Fm (Early Miocene). AGE: Earliest Miocene. Cut by dukes that have been radiometrically dated by K-Ar at 20 Ma; a tuff at the base of the formation is date by K-Ar as 23 Ma; 87Sr/86Sr dating gives an age of 22.6 Ma +/- 0.4 Ma; brachiopods and foraminifera have early Miocene affinities. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within the 150-200 m thick formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

• COLLECTOR: British Antarctic Survey. REPOSITORY: Geological Sciences Division of theBritish Antarctic Survey, Cambridge.

Primary reference: M. A. Bitner and J. A. Crame. 2002. Brachiopods from the Lower Miocene of King George Island, West Antarctica. Polish Polar Research 23(1):75-84 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 99653: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 18.11.2010

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