Also known as GS 4963
Where: Hawke's Bay, New Zealand (39.8° S, 176.8° E: paleocoordinates 46.0° S, 179.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• From Waiauan stage (late middle Miocene).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; brown sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Collected by J.T. Kingma. Collection likely to be reposited at IGNS (Geological Survey of New Zealand).
Primary reference: J.T. Kingma. 1971. Geology of the Te Aute Subdivision. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 70 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 45183: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.10.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Thecostraca | |
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778 barnacle | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Notosaria sp. Cooper 1959 | |
Terebratulina sp. d'Orbigny 1847 | |
"Terebratella aff. sanguinea" = Magasella sanguinea
"Terebratella aff. sanguinea" = Magasella sanguinea Leach 1814 | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium solidum Hutton 1873 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Purpurocardia sp. Maxwell 1969 clam | |
"Tellinella aff. eugonia" = Tellina (Tellinella)
"Tellinella aff. eugonia" = Tellina (Tellinella) tellin clam | |
Limopsis lawsi King 1933 clam | |
Limatula sp. Wood 1839 file clam | |
Serripecten hutchinsoni Hutton 1873 scallop
Mesopeplum sp. Iredale 1929 scallop | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Gastropoda | |
Austrofusus sp. Kobelt 1879 true whelk | |
Zemacies sp. Finlay 1926 snail | |
"Baryspira (Gracilispira) wairarapaensis" = Amalda (Baryspira)
"Baryspira (Gracilispira) wairarapaensis" = Amalda (Baryspira) snail | |
Alcithoe sp. Adams and Adams 1853 volute | |
"Euspinacassis cf. toreuma" = Echinophoria
"Euspinacassis cf. toreuma" = Echinophoria snail | |
? Friginatica sp. Hedley 1916 moon snail | |
Anthozoa | |
Flabellum sp. Lesson 1831 stony coral | |
Maoritellina | |