Brownrigg Point, Kawai Island (N34/f11) (Miocene of New Zealand)

Also known as R09/f9011

Where: New Zealand (36.4° S, 174.9° E: paleocoordinates 45.0° S, 177.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Waitemata Group, Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)

• Basal conglomerate. Otaian (early Otaian according to Robinson, 2017)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A.M. Hopgood in 1955

• Repository: Auckland University

Primary reference: D. E. Lee and J. B. Wilson. 1979. Cenozoic and recent rhynchonellide brachiopods of New Zealand: Systematics and variation in the genus Notosaria. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 9:437-463 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 208801: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.04.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Notosariidae
Notosaria antipoda Thomson 1918