Also known as GS 6585
Where: New Zealand (38.2° S, 177.1° E: paleocoordinates 73.9° S, 169.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Urutawan to Urutawan (108.4 - 103.3 Ma)
• Urutawan-Motuan
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; concretionary, green, blue siltstone and fine-grained 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 37271: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 09.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Sedentaria | |
Bivalvia | |
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam | |
Pleuromya sp. Meek 1873 clam | |
Pseudolimea sp. Douglas and Arkell 1932 file clam | |
? Aucellina sp. Pompeckj 1901 scallop | |
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Scaphopoda | |
? Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail |