Pliocene Mollusca (Bivalvia, Gastropoda) from the S&#248rsdal Formation, Marine Plain, Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica: taxonomy and implications for Antarctic Pliocene palaeoenvironments

• Published in: Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology
• Main Authors: Quilty, PG, Darragh, TA, Gallagher, SJ, Harding, LA
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2016
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Geology; Palaeontology (incl. Palynology); Antarctic; East Antarctica; Harding; Marine Plain; Nacella; The Antarctic; Vestfold; Vestfold Hills; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2016.1180800; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/111804

Pliocene shallow-water marine sediments at Marine Plain (centred on 6837.7ʹS; 7807.8ʹE) and covering approximately 10 km in the Vestfold Hills, East Antarctica, have yielded six species of gastropods, and 11 species of bivalves from two beds within the Srsdal Formation. Most of the material is close...