Reworked late Neogene Austrochlamys anderssoni (Mollusca: Bivalvia) from northern James Ross Island, Antarctica
Pirrie, D.; Jonkers, H.A.; Smellie, John L.; Crame, J. Alistair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5027-9965; McArthur, J.M.. 2011 Reworked late Neogene Austrochlamys anderssoni (Mollusca: Bivalvia) from northern James Ross Island, Antarctica. Antarctic Science, 23 (2). 180-187. 10.1017/S0954102010000842
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Abstract/Summary
We report on the discovery of a new outcrop of fossiliferous Neogene sediments on northern James Ross Island, northern Antarctic Peninsula. Approximately 100 specimens of the pectinid bivalve Austrochlamys anderssoni (Hennig, 1911) were collected from the permafrost active layer. This bivalve species has a late Miocene to late Pliocene range and has previously been reported from both the glaciomarine Hobbs Glacier Formation and the interglacial Cockburn Island Formation in the James Ross Island area. The localized presence of abundant A. anderssoni within the permafrost suggests that the fossils have been frost heaved from an outcrop of either the Cockburn Island or the Hobbs Glacier formations, originally deposited on northern James Ross Island. The overall shell form, general absence of associated Antarctic Peninsula-derived clasts in the host sediment, and the measured Sr-87/(86) Sr isotope ratio of the shells (0.709050) which is indistinguishable from that for pectinid bivalves from the Cockburn Island Formation on Cockburn Island (0.709047) suggest that the shells were derived from a unit similar in age to the Cockburn Island Formation. This suggests that the Cockburn Island Formation was originally more laterally extensive than was previously known.
Item Type: | Publication - Article |
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | 10.1017/S0954102010000842 |
Programmes: | BAS Programmes > Polar Science for Planet Earth (2009 - ) > Environmental Change and Evolution |
ISSN: | 0954-1020 |
NORA Subject Terms: | Glaciology Ecology and Environment Earth Sciences |
Date made live: | 26 May 2011 11:26 +0 (UTC) |
URI: | https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/14060 |
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