Also known as GSNZ coll. 1908

Where: Central Otago, New Zealand (45.0° S, 170.1° E: paleocoordinates 51.2° S, 175.5° W)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Naseby Greensand Formation (Stranraer Group), Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• Listed as "probably middle bed of greensand". Described in text as from units of the Naseby Series (now Naseby Greensand), part of the Pareora Formation of Hutton (1875). From Bishop (1979): Naseby Greensand (Stranraer Group) is approximatey 250-300 m thick, underlain by metamorphosed schist or siltstone of the Eocene Swinburn Formation (Stranraer Group), and overlain conformably by current-bedded quartz sands and gravels of the late Oligocene/early Miocene Wedderburn Formation (Stranraer Group).

•Bishop, D.G. 1979: Sheet 135, Ranfurly (1st ed.) "Geological Map of New Zealand 1:63 360". N.Z. Dept. Sci. Ind. Res., Wellington

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, coarse-grained, green sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by T.H. Ferrar, 1927

Primary reference: J. H. Williamson. 1939. The Geology of the Naseby Subdivision, Central Otago. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 39 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35131: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 13.11.2003

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