Low Island, South Shetland Islands, locality 1b (Jurassic of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (63.3° S, 62.1° W: paleocoordinates 55.7° S, 33.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• age based on occurence of Epimayites at locality 1a

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, black mudstone

• indurated black mudstones

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: trace

Collection methods: in-situ fauna

Primary reference: M. R. A. Thomson. 1982. Late Jurassic fossils from Low Island, south Shetland Islands. Br. Antarct. Surv. Bull. (56)25-35 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68361: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 17.01.2007

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Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramidae indet.
Inoceramidae indet. Giebel 1852 clam
 Ichnofossils -
? Rhizocorallium sp.