| Title | Brachiopods from the Chlamys Ledge Member (Polonez Cove Formation, Oligocene) of King George Island, West Antarctica |
| Author | Bitner, M.A.; Gazdzicki, A.; Blazejowski, B. |
| Author Affil | Bitner, M.A., Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut Paleobiologii, Warsaw, Poland |
| Source | Polish Polar Research, 30(3), p.277- 290, . Publisher: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, Warsaw, Poland. ISSN: 0138- 0338 |
| Publication Date | 2009 |
| Notes | In English. 45 refs. GeoRef Acc. No: 297068 |
| Index Terms | Antarctica--King George Island; Antarctica; Articulata; Brachiopoda; Cenozoic; Chlamys Ledge Member; faunal studies; Invertebrata; King George Island; Liothyrella; morphology; Mount Barbakan; Oligocene; Paleogene; Polonez Cove Formation; Rhizothyris; Rhynchonellida; Scotia Sea Islands; shells; South Shetland Islands; taxonomy; Terebratulida; Terebratulidae; Tertiary |
| Abstract | Brachiopods from the Chlamys Ledge Member, uppermost part of the Polonez Cove Formation (Oligocene), of King George Island, West Antarctica are represented by the undeterminable Rhynchonellida, one short- looped terebratulide Liothyrella Thomson, and two long-looped terebratellidines: Rhizothyris Thomson and Terebratelloidea gen. et sp. indet. Liothyrella is a well known genus in the Cenozoic strata and Recent waters of the Southern Hemisphere, while Rhizothyris is noted for the second time in the Antarctic region. This is the first record of brachiopods from the Chlamys Ledge Member. |
| URL | http://hdl.handle.net/10.4202/ppres.2009.14 |
| Publication Type | journal article |
| Record ID | 87480 |