President Beaches Formation, Livingston Islands, Antarctic Peninsula - P.2152 (Cretaceous of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (62.7° S, 61.0° W: paleocoordinates 50.9° S, 37.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lenticular Sandstone Member (President Beaches Formation), Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified sandstone

• slope-apron mudstones and sandstones
• muddy sandstone

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 36793: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 16.02.2004

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae