Also known as GS 4962
Where: Southland, New Zealand (46.2° S, 170.0° E: paleocoordinates 58.5° S, 160.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wangaloa Formation, Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• Waipawan local stage = basal Ypresian. More recent literature (Stilwell, 1993; Cooper et al., 2004) suggests a Early Teurian stage = Danian age.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; ferruginous, pebbly conglomerate and sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Collected by Finlay and Marwick. Collections are likely to be reposited in IGNZ (New Zealand Geological Survey) collections.
Primary reference: H. J. Harrington. 1958. Geology of Kaitangata Coalfield. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 59 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 50216: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.05.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Scaphopoda | |
Antalis multistricta tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Lahillia sp. Cossmann 1899 clam | |
Marwickia parthiana venus clam | |
Panopea sp. Menard 1807 clam | |
Cucullaea (Cucullona) sp. Finlay and Marwick 1937 clam | |
Ledina cf. taioma pointed nut clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Conchothyra sp. n. sp.
Conchothyra sp. n. sp. Hutton 1877 snail | |
Tudiclana sp. Finlay and Marwick 1937 snail | |
Zeacolpus (Leptocolpus) sp. Finlay and Marwick 1937 turret shell |