Also known as GS 8205
Where: New Zealand (38.8° S, 179.8° E: paleocoordinates 58.2° S, 164.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Piripauan to Piripauan (85.8 - 66.0 Ma)
• Piripauan-Haumurian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; medium-grained, coarse, gray, calcareous, carbonaceous sandstone and shelly/skeletal packstone
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 37329: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 11.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium morganianum tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam | |
? Anthonya sp. Gabb 1864 clam | |
Callistina wilckensi venus clam | |
"Pterotrigonia pseudocaudata" = Trigonia pseudocaudata
"Pterotrigonia pseudocaudata" = Trigonia pseudocaudata Hector 1886 clam |