H46/f6491 - Cannbal Bay, Otago (Jurassic to of New Zealand)

Also known as GS21; S184/491

Where: New Zealand (46.5° S, 169.8° E: paleocoordinates 78.9° S, 38.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bathonian to Bathonian (168.3 - 163.5 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Unknown lithostratigraphic unit, not stated in text. AGE: Upper Temaikan = Latest Bajocian-Callovian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marinelithified

• ENVIRONMENT: Unknown environment, not stated in text.
• LITHOLOGY: Unknown lithology of lithification, not stated in text. Presumed to be lithified on the basis of age.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IGNS

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: A. McKay, 1873. REPOSITORY: Presumably the New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS), Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

Primary reference: G. R. Stevens. 1965. The Jurassic and Cretaceous Belemnites of New Zealand and a Review of the Jurassic and Cretaceous Belemnites of the Indo-Pacific Region. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 36 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63774: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 20.08.2006

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Taxonomic list

• COMPLETENESS: Limited, however exhaustive, to taxonomic group covered in monograph (Trigoniacea). NOMENCLATURE: From authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature and use of subgeneric and species names. IDENTIFICATION: All older collections re-identified by J.A. Marwick, G.R. Stevens, I.G. Speden
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Macrocephalitidae
 Belemnitida - Mesohibolitidae
Hibolithes catlinensis Hector 1878 belemnite
Bivalvia
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya "sp. A"2 Meek 1873 clam
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
? Isocyprina "sp. B"2 Röder 1882 clam
 Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Tancredia allani1 Marwick 1953 clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp. n. sp.2 Sowerby 1814 clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
? Camptonectes sp.2 Meek 1864 scallop
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
? Ostrea "sp. B"2 Linnaeus 1758 oyster
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae