Also known as Collection #3040 (Hendy PhD); GS #3234
Where: New Zealand (44.2° S, 171.1° E: paleocoordinates 51.5° S, 168.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kaiatan (39.1 - 36.7 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: 250-350 ft below limestone (Weka Pass Limestone?). No lithostratigraphic data stated in text. AGE: Bortonian age=latest Lutetian-Bartonian.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; unlithified, fine-grained, glauconitic, micaceous, gray, green, calcareous sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the IGNS
Collection methods: quarrying,
• COLLECTOR: Collected by H.W. Wellman (1944). REPOSITORY: Collection probably reposited in New Zealand Geological Survey (IGNS) collections, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
Primary reference: H. W. Wellman. 1953. The Geology of the Geraldine Subdivision. New Zealand Geological Survey bulletin 50 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 67591: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 27.11.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Dentalium aff. solidum Hutton 1873 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Hedecardium brunneri Hector 1886 cockle | |
Spissatella "n. sp." Finlay 1926 clam | |
Atrina sp. Gray 1842 oyster | |
Ostrea sp. Linnaeus 1758 oyster | |
Cucullaea sp. Lamarck 1801 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Galeodea cf. geniculosa snail | |
"Austrosassia sp." = Sassia
"Austrosassia sp." = Sassia Bellardi 1872 triton shell | |
Falsicolus cf. solidus snail | |
"Baryspira cf. morgani" = Amalda (Baryspira)
"Baryspira cf. morgani" = Amalda (Baryspira) snail | |
Cordieria aff. rudis snail | |
Magnatica sp. Marwick 1924 moon snail | |
Spirocolpus cf. waihaoensis turret shell
Zeacolpus sp. Finlay 1926 turret shell |