Lower Miocene macrofossils from CRP-1 drillhole, Cape Roberts, (Victoria Land Basin, Antarctica)

Jonkers, H.A.; Taviani, M.. 1998 Lower Miocene macrofossils from CRP-1 drillhole, Cape Roberts, (Victoria Land Basin, Antarctica). Terra Antartica, 5 (3). 493-498.

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Abstract/Summary

Macrofossil content from the Miocene part of CRP-1 core, Cape Roberts (Victoria Land Basin) is scant and mostly limited to a few pectinid bivalves and serpulid polychaetes. Selective diagenesis has seriously affected the Miocene sediments, probably biasing the fossil legacy which is dominated by a reduced number of calcitic tests. Pectinid bivalves pertain to two different taxa ascribed to"Chlamys". The serpulid is an undescribed species which likely lived gregariously. The maciofauna may have lived at a relatively shallow depth in a siliciclastic shelf under conditions that were riobably somewhat warmer than those in the present Ross Sea.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Programmes:	BAS Programmes > Pre 2000 programme
Date made live:	04 Dec 2013 10:51 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/504116

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