R15/f8030 - Heteri Peninsula, Kawhia (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Also known as Auckland University C107

Where: Kawhia, New Zealand (38.1° S, 174.8° E: paleocoordinates 80.8° S, 54.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Heterian (161.2 - 153.5 Ma)

• No stratigraphic data listed; Heterian New Zealand stage

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

• No geologic information listed
• No lithologic information listed

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Collection methods no listed; collected by R.N. Brothers (1943); material reposited in IGNS (New Zealand Geological Survey)

Primary reference: G. R. Stevens. 1985. A revision of the Lytoceratinae (Subclass Ammonoidea) including Lytoceras taharoaense n. sp., Upper Jurassic, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 28:153-185 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35722: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 05.01.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Only contains Ammonoidea
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite
Lytoceras sp. indet. A., cf. L. taharoense
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae