Waimana f572 (Cretaceous of New Zealand)

Also known as GS 9820

Where: New Zealand (38.2° S, 177.1° E: paleocoordinates 72.3° S, 169.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Motuan (103.3 - 99.5 Ma)

• ?Motuan

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

• not given

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 37298: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 09.03.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam