Seymour Island 7 (Cretaceous of Antarctica)
Where: Seymour Island, Antarctica (64.3° S, 56.8° W: paleocoordinates 62.6° S, 67.3° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lopez de Bertodano Formation, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 65.5 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; burrowed, gray sandstone
• lithology has thin intercalations of calcareous sandstone
Primary reference: C. E. Macellari. 1988. Stratigraphy, sedimentology, and paleoecology of Upper Cretaceous/Paleocene shelf-deltaic sediments of Seymour Island. Geological Society of America-Memoir (169)25-53 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou] more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 3158: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 27.07.1999