A new fossil Adamussium (Bivalvia: Pectinidae) from Antarctica

Artículos de revistas

Fecha

2010-01-01

Registro en:

Polish Polar Research. Warsaw: Polish Acad Sciences Committee Polar Research, v. 31, n. 4, p. 291-302, 2010.

0138-0338

http://hdl.handle.net/11449/19141

10.2478/v10183.010.0006.0

WOS:000285812600001

Autor

Universidade de São Paulo (USP)

British Antarctic Survey

Inst Paleobiol PAN

Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)

Institución

Universidade Estadual Paulista (Brasil)

Resumen

Adamussium Jonkersi sp nov is described from the Late Oligocene Destruction Bay Formation Wrona Buttress area King George Island (South Shetlands) West Antarctica The unit characterized by volcanic sandstone is a shallow marine( succession deposited in a moderate- to high-energy environment The thin shelled pectinids collected from the lower part of the unit are preserved mostly as complete valves Shell thickness sculpture pattern and umbonal angle suggest a free-living inactive swimming life habit

Materias

Antarctica

Adamussium

Pectinidae

Destruction Bay Formation

Oligocene

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