Where: Antarctica (75.3° S, 68.8° W: paleocoordinates 62.7° S, 19.1° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Latady Formation, Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)
• Age given as Kimmeridgian?-Tithonian L.35
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, sandy mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: mold/impression
Collection methods: mechanical
• All Specimens are housed in the British Anatrctic Survey Palaeontological Collections, Cambridge
Primary reference: S. R. A. Kelly. 1995. New trigonoid bivalves from the early Jurassic to earliest Cretaceous of the Antarctic Peninsula region: systematics and austral paleobiogeography. Journal of Paleontology 69(1):66-84 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 36784: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 16.02.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Vaugonia (Vaugonia) orvillensis n. sp. clam |