E45/f9447 - Flag Hill, Southland (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Also known as GS 344; S169/0447

Where: New Zealand (46.0° S, 168.5° E: paleocoordinates 72.4° S, 60.7° E)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aratauran (201.4 - 188.9 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: "Upper Plagiostoma beds". 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 63821: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.08.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham

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.
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Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Pennospiriferinidae
"Spiriferina ongleyi" = Callospiriferina ongleyi
"Spiriferina ongleyi" = Callospiriferina ongleyi Marwick 1953
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Sakawairhynchia marokopana1
Gastropoda
 Pleurotomarioidea - Pleurotomariidae
Pleurotomaria sp.2
Pleurotomaria sp.2 Defrance 1826 snail
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Trochus sp. n. sp.2
Trochus sp. n. sp.2 Linnaeus 1758 top snail
Bivalvia
 Solemyida - Solemyidae
? Solemya sp.2
? Solemya sp.2 Children 1823 Awning Clam
 Pectinida - Monotidae
Otapiria marshalli
Otapiria marshalli Trechmann 1923 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium sp.2
Entolium sp.2 Meek 1865 scallop
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Kalentera mckayi
Kalentera mckayi Marwick 1953 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya sp.2
Pleuromya sp.2 Meek 1873 clam
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
Sphaeriola sp.2
Sphaeriola sp.2 Stoliczka 1871 clam
1MacFarlan 1992; 2Marwick 1950