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Unusual nautilid occurrence in the upper Eocene La Meseta Formation, Seymour Island, Antarctica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

William J. Zinsmeister
William J. Zinsmeister*
Affiliation:
Department of Geosciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907
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Abstract

The presence of large numbers of phragmocones of Eutrephoceras and Aturia in an upper Eocene beach deposit of the La Meseta Formation on Seymour Island is the first known occurrence of beach-drifted accumulations of nautilid shells in the fossil record and may also represent the first documentation of a mass stranding of nautilids in the Cenozoic.

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Research Article
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 61 , Issue 4 , July 1987 , pp. 724 - 726
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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