Where: Seymour Island, Antarctica (64.3° S, 56.8° W: paleocoordinates 62.5° S, 67.5° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lopez de Bertodano Formation, Maastrichtian (72.1 - 66.0 Ma)

• This is restricted to Unit 9, of the 10 units into which the Lopez de Bertodano FM was divided, and it falls below the K-T boundary, though it is ill-defined. This collection is only for Unit 9 taxa collected BELOW the "K/T transition interval", and so is clearly Maastrichtian in age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, bioturbated, glauconitic, silty sandstone and siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk,

• All macrofossils were collected

Primary reference: W. J. Zinsmeister, R. M. Feldmann, M. O. Woodburne and D. H. Elliot. 1989. Latest Cretaceous/Earliest Tertiary Transition on Seymour Island, Antarctica. Journal of Paleontology 63(6):731-738 [L. Ivany/E. Kowalski/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63513: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Linda Ivany on 15.08.2006, edited by Philip Mannion

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