E45/f9446 - Flag Hill, Southland (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Also known as GS 343; S169/0446

Where: New Zealand (46.0° S, 168.5° E: paleocoordinates 72.1° S, 60.4° E)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aratauran (201.3 - 189.6 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Unknown lithostratigraphic unit, not stated in text. AGE: Aratauran = Hettangian to earliest Pliensbachian.

• 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 63815: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.08.2006, edited by Wolfgang Kiessling

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. Marwick.
Gastropoda
 Seguenzioidea - Eucyclidae
Eucyclus sp.2 Eudes-Deslongchamps 1860 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Meleagrinella sp.2 Whitfield 1855 scallop
 Pectinida - Monotidae
Otapiria marshalli Trechmann 1923 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea fida2 Marwick 1953 file clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya sp.2 Meek 1873 clam
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
"Pleurophorus sp." = Permophorus2, Kalentera mckayi
"Pleurophorus sp." = Permophorus2 Chavan 1954 clam
Kalentera mckayi Marwick 1953 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
"Astarte cf. scytalis" = Seebachia (Eoseebachia) sowerbyana2, "Astarte morgani" = Trigonopis morgani2
"Astarte cf. scytalis" = Seebachia (Eoseebachia) sowerbyana2 Holdhaus 1913 clam
"Astarte morgani" = Trigonopis morgani2 Trechmann 1923 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonella sp.2 Fischer 1809
 Spiriferinida - Pennospiriferinidae
"Spiriferina ongleyi" = Callospiriferina ongleyi
"Spiriferina ongleyi" = Callospiriferina ongleyi Marwick 1953
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
Spiriferina sp.2 d'Orbigny 1847
 Spiriferinida - Sinucostidae
 Terebratulida -
Terebratulida indet.1 Waagen 1883