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Valle de las Focas, Weddell Sea, Western Antarctica, Antarctica
Lat/Long (Decimal) | -64.2178,-56.6336 |
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Co-ordinates Derivation | estimated from map |
Mindat.org Region (for given coordinates) | Weddell Sea, Western Antarctica, Antarctica |
Collections
Collection | Reference | Stratigraphic Name | Comments | Lithology | Age |
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Valle de las Focas | Pujana R. R., Santillana S. N., et al (2014) | La Meseta - Valle de Las Focas | Locality 1 (Valle de las Focas allomember) is regarded as possibly late Paleocene based on new magnetostratigraphic studies (Montes et al., 2010) but it may correspond to reworked material from the underlying Sobral Formation. Most recent studies (Montes et al., 2010), although still in progress, indicate that the lower and middle parts of the La Meseta Formation (Valle de las Focas, Acantilados, Campamento, Cucullaea I and the lower part of Cucullaea II allomembers) were deposited during | mudstone | 58.7 - 48.6 Ma Paleogene |
Recorded Fossils
Accepted Name | Hierarchy | Age |
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Phyllocladoxylon antarcticum species | Plantae : Tracheophyta : Pinopsida : Pinales : Podocarpaceae : Phyllocladoxylon : Phyllocladoxylon antarcticum | 58.7 - 48.6 Ma Paleogene |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!