Where: Antarctica (62.7° S, 61.2° W: paleocoordinates 50.9° S, 36.5° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Devils Point Formation (Byers Group), Late/Upper Tithonian to Late/Upper Tithonian (150.8 - 140.2 Ma)
• The locality of the Devils Point area yielded one specimen defined as Haplophylloceras strigile (Blanford, 1864). One more ammonite has been collected and conditionally identified as Protancyloceras sp. indet. Based on that, we suggest late Tithonian–early Berriasian age for the rocks at the vicinity of Devils Point.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Museum of Paleontology and Historical Geology (Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski")
Primary reference: D. Dochev, V. Idakieva, M. Ivanov, S. Velev, and K. Bonev. 2017. Ammonite fauna from the Byers Peninsula, Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Comptes Rendus de l’Académie Bulgare des Sciences 70:1557-1566 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 190849: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 19.12.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Protancyloceras sp. Spath 1924 ammonoid | |
Haplophylloceras strigile Blanford 1864 ammonite |