Where: Antarctica (72.1° S, 68.9° W: paleocoordinates 76.3° S, 45.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Neptune Glacier Formation, Albian (113.0 - 100.5 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Fossil Bluff Formation (Neptune Glacier Formation in Smith and Crame, 2012). AGE: ?Albian. Justification not stated, presumably based on Belemnite and Ammonoid index taxa. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Collection lies within upper c. 1.2 km of the approximately 4 km thick formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BAS
Collection methods: quarrying,
• COLLECTOR: Members of British Antarctic Survey. REPOSITORY: British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge. Some material reposited in BMNH, GSSA (Geological Survey of S Australia), HM (Hunterian Museum, Glascow), MUGD (Melbourne University Geology Dept.), NMV (National Museum of Victoria), SAM (South Australian Museum), and SM (Sedgewick Museum, Cambridge).
Primary reference: P. Doyle. 1987. The Cretaceous Dimitobelidae (Belemnitida) of the Antarctic Peninsula region. Palaeontology 30(1):147-177 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 64202: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.09.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Spatangoida indet. Agassiz 1840 heart urchin | |
Cephalopoda | |
Hamites aff. tenuis Sowerby 1814 ammonite | |
Dimitobelus sp. Whitehouse 1925 belemnite |