Also known as GS 6289
Where: New Zealand (38.2° S, 177.1° E: paleocoordinates 68.6° S, 178.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mangaotanean (92.1 - 89.3 Ma)
• ? Mangaotanean
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; siltstone and sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: I. A. Speden. 1973. Distribution, stratigraphy and stratigraphic relationships of Cretaceous sediments, western Raukumara Peninsula, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 16(2):243-268 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 37267: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 09.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop | |
Ostrea cf. lapillicola oyster | |
Sedentaria | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhynchonella sp. Fischer 1809 |