Seymour Island 2: Maastrichtian - Late/Upper Campanian, Antarctica
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
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Anthozoa indet.
Ehrenberg 1834
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Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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Bivalvia
- Arcida
- Parallelodontidae
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Nordenskjoldia sp.
Wilckens 1910
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| spelled with current rank as Grammatodon (Nordenskjoldia) | ||||||||||
| originally entered as "Nordenskjoldia sp." | ||||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Ammonoidea
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Ammonoidea indet.
Zittel 1884
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Geography
| Country: | Antarctica | State/province: | Seymour Island |
| Coordinates: | 64.3° South, 56.8° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 62.3° South, 67.6° West | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Late/Upper Cretaceous |
| *Epoch: | Senonian | ||
| *International age/stage: | Maastrichtian - Late/Upper Campanian | ||
| Key time interval: | Maastrichtian - Late/Upper Campanian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 83.60000 - 66.00000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Lopez de Bertodano | ||
| Local section: | A | Local bed: | 2 |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray,green sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | siltstone |
| Environment: | foreshore |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 145. | C. E. Macellari. 1988. Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and paleoecology of Upper Cretaceous/Paleocene shelf-deltaic sediments of Seymour Island. Geological Society of America-Memoir 169:25-53 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/M. Uhen] |