N62/f587 Te Piki, Cape Runaway (Pleistocene of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (37.5° S, 178.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 37.8° S, 178.3° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Te Piki Member (Waipaoa Formation), Castlecliffian (1.6 - 0.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, brown, gray, sandy, calcareous mudstone

• massive, richly fossiliferous, soft, brown-grey calcareous sandy mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. A. Grant-Mackie and M. Chapman-Smith. 1971. Paleontological notes on the Castlecliffian Te Piki Bed, with descriptions of new Molluscan taxa. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 14(4):655-704 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178189: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 24.04.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Tanea zelandica
Tanea zelandica Quoy and Gaimard 1832 moon snail
 Neogastropoda - Mangeliidae
Neoguraleus (Fusiguraleus) plenecomptus n. sp.
Neoguraleus (Fusiguraleus) plenecomptus n. sp. Grant-Mackie and Chapman-Smith 1971 snail