Also known as Coll# 3004 (Hendy PhD)
Where: New Zealand (45.0° S, 170.8° E: paleocoordinates 56.6° S, 162.0° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kauru Formation (Fuchsia Group), Selandian to Selandian (61.6 - 56.0 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Kauru Fm, either locally overlying Kakanui Metamorphic Group (Paleozoic) or Papakaio Fm (Piripauan), and overlain locally by Tapui Glauconitic Sandstone (Bortonian). AGE: upper part of Wangaloan of Gage (1957) (disused according to Cooper et al. 2004) = ?late Teurian (current NZ stage usage) = Selandian-Thanetian.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the IGNS
Collection methods: quarrying,
• COLLECTOR: Collected by W.H. Benson. REPOSITORY: New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand).
Primary reference: M. Gage. 1957. The Geology of the Waitaki Subdivision. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 55 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 64701: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium (Laevidentalium) multistrictum tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
? Pteromyrtea "n. sp." Finlay 1926 clam
Miltha sp. Adams and Adams 1857 clam | |
aff. Thyasira "n. sp." Lamarck 1818 clam | |
Nemocardium sp. Meek 1876 cockle | |
"Taras "n. sp."" = Diplodonta
"Taras "n. sp."" = Diplodonta Bronn 1831 clam | |
"Maorimactra sp." = Mactra (Maorimactra)
"Maorimactra sp." = Mactra (Maorimactra) Finlay 1928 clam | |
Spineilo elongata pointed nut clam | |
Gastropoda | |
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Magnatica cf. firma moon snail | |
Spirocolpus "n. sp." Finlay 1926 turret shell
Zeacolpus (Leptocolpus) semiconcavus turret shell | |
Acteon cf. wangaloa snail |