Gibbon Bay Shale, South Orkney Islands (Jurassic to of Antarctica)

Where: Antarctica (60.7° S, 45.2° W: paleocoordinates 55.9° S, 42.4° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Tithonian to Tithonian (152.1 - 100.5 Ma)

• Late Jurassic (Tithonian) or earliest Cretaceous

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; ferruginous, calcareous shale

• dark-coloured shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: M. R. A. Thomson. 1981. Late Mesozoic stratigraphy and invertebrate palaeontology of the South Orkney Isalnds. British Antarctic Survey Bulletin (54)65-83 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 36805: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 16.02.2004

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras sp.
Lytoceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite
 Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Belemnopsis ex gr. uhligi
Scaphopoda
  -
? Scaphopoda indet.
? Scaphopoda indet. Bronn 1862 tusk shell
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
? Nuculana sp.
? Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
"Nucula (? Leionucula) sp." = Leionucula
"Nucula (? Leionucula) sp." = Leionucula Quenstedt 1930 nut clam
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
? Exogyra sp.
? Exogyra sp. Say 1820 oyster
 Ostreida - Posidoniidae
? Steinmannia sp.
? Steinmannia sp. Fischer 1886 oyster
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium sp.
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes sp. n. sp.
Camptonectes sp. n. sp. Meek 1864 scallop
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte sp.
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida -
? Rhynchonellida indet.