E45/f9439 - Flag Hill, Otago (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Also known as GS 336; S169/0439

Where: New Zealand (46.0° S, 169.5° E: paleocoordinates 78.5° S, 40.3° E)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Temaikan (175.6 - 161.2 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Unknown lithostratigraphic unit, not stated in text. AGE: Temaikan = Aalenian-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 and figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IGNS

• COLLECTOR: A. McKay, 1878. REPOSITORY: Presumably the New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS), Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

Primary reference: J. Marwick. 1953. Divisions and faunas of the Hokonui System (Triassic and Jurassic). New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 21 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63812: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.08.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COMPLETENESS: Exhaustive for reported faunas (from several monographs). New Zealand Fossil Record File (http://data.gns.cri.nz/fred/) for supplementary data., further publications and synonymies. NOMENCLATURE: From authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature and use of subgeneric and species names. IDENTIFICATION: All older collections re-identified by J.A. Fleming.
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma sp. Meek and Hayden 1865 scallop
Meleagrinella sp. Whitfield 1855 scallop
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Homomya signicollina Marwick 1953 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya milleformis Marwick 1953 clam