Also known as N158/f964; GS11656
Where: New Zealand (42.0° S, 176.0° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 85.7° S, 149.2° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Waewaepa Formation, Motuan (103.3 - 99.5 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Waewaepa Fm. AGE: Motuan (=Albian), on the basis of macrofossil biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From bed of unknown position within formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, concretionary, shelly/skeletal, sandy, carbonaceous mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast, mold/impression, concretion
Collected by Moore & Speden in 1975; reposited in the IGNS
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
• COLLECTOR: P.R. Moore, I.G. Speden, 1975. REPOSITORY: GSNZ (now GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand).
Primary reference: P. R. Moore and I. G. Speden. 1984. The Early Cretaceous (Albian) sequence of eastern Wairarapa, New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Society Bulletin 97:1-98 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 83507: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.08.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Teredo sp. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Inoceramus kapuus clam | |
Aucellina euglypha scallop | |
Solemya sp. Children 1823 Awning Clam |