Where: North Island, New Zealand (36.0° S, 174.0° E: paleocoordinates 44.1° S, 176.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pakaurangi Formation, Otaian (21.7 - 19.0 Ma)
• Pakaurangi formation is a best estimate: “the molluscs have much in common with those at Pakaurangi Point, Kaipara Harbour, not far to the south.”
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: intrashelf or intraplatform reef; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: A. G. Beu and B. A. Marshall. 2011. New Cenozoic records of genera and families from New Zealand (Mollusca, Gastropoda): highlights from Phillip Maxwell’s collection. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 54(1):13-34 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 176737: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.02.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Bivalvia | |
Chama sp. Linnaeus 1758 jewel box | |
? Tawera sp. Marwick 1927 venus clam | |
"Fasciculicardia sp." = Glyptoactis (Fasciculicardia)
"Fasciculicardia sp." = Glyptoactis (Fasciculicardia) Maxwell 1969 clam | |
Mesopeplum sp. Iredale 1929 scallop
Serripecten sp. Marwick 1928 scallop | |
Tucetona aucklandica clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Laevidentalium sp. Cossmann 1888 tusk shell | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Polinices sp. Monfort 1810 moon snail | |
Ellatrivia sp. Iredale 1931 snail | |
Prosimnia blackae n. sp.
Prosimnia blackae n. sp. Beu and Marshall 2011 snail | |
Conus sp. Linnaeus 1758 cone shell | |
Bathytoma sp. Harris and Burrows 1891 snail | |
Chicoreus (Triplex) komiticus murex snail | |
Coluzea sp. Finlay 1926 snail | |
Falsicolus kaiparaensis snail | |
Inquisitor sp. Hedley 1918 snail | |
Zeacolpus lawsi turret shell | |
Anthozoa | |
Notocyathus conicus Alcock 1902 stony coral | |
"Cylindrophyllia minima" = Peponocyathus minimus
"Cylindrophyllia minima" = Peponocyathus minimus Yabe and Eguchi 1937 stony coral | |
Oculina virgosa Squires 1958 stony coral |