Where: Seymour Island, Antarctica (64.3° S, 56.8° W: paleocoordinates 63.4° S, 63.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Telm 4 Member (La Meseta Formation), Ypresian (55.8 - 48.6 Ma)
• JA: Telm 4 is Ypresian according to Reguero et al. 2012
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, lag, coarse-grained, phosphatic, shelly/skeletal, conglomeratic, calcareous sandstone
•abundant phosphatic shark, skate, and ray teeth and vertebrate bones
•shells in bioclastic gray-brown coarse-grained, conglomeratic sandstone
•basal contact is erosive and scoured, with cobbles and phosphate
•crudely cross-bedded
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: original aragonite, original calcite
Collection methods: bulk, surface (float), surface (in situ),
Primary reference: J. D. Stilwell and W. J. Zinsmeister. 1992. Molluscan Systematics and Biostratigraphy. Antarctic Research Series, AGU 55 [L. Ivany/L. Ivany] more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 63550: authorized by Linda Ivany, entered by Linda Ivany on 16.08.2006, edited by Mark Uhen
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