Also known as GS 8205
Where: New Zealand (38.8° S, 179.8° E: paleocoordinates 65.0° S, 167.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Piripauan (85.8 - 83.5 Ma)
• ?Piripauan
• 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 37330: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 11.03.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Reptilia | |
| |
Gastropoda | |
Cinulia sp. Gray 1847 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Limatula cf. woodsi Suter 1921 file clam | |
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop | |
Ostrea lapillicola oyster | |
Inoceramus cf. pacificus Anderson and Hanna 1935 clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium sp. Linnaeus 1758 tusk shell | |
Cephalopoda | |
Baculites cf. rectus Marshall 1926 ammonite |