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
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 178191: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 24.04.2016
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
| Gastropoda | |
|
Odostomia turneri snail | |
"Subonoba (Austronoba) obessa n. sp." = Onoba (Onoba) obessa
"Subonoba (Austronoba) obessa n. sp." = Onoba (Onoba) obessa Grant-Mackie and Chapman-Smith 1971 snail | |
|
Neoguraleus (Fusiguraleus) plenecomptus Grant-Mackie and Chapman-Smith 1971 snail | |
| Polyplacophora | |
|
Cryptoconchus mucronatus chiton | |