Where: Kermadec Islands, New Zealand (29.2° S, 177.8° W: paleocoordinates 30.2° S, 177.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Boat Cove Formation (Herald Group), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; volcaniclastic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: F. J. Brook. 1998. Stratigraphy and paleontology of Pleistocene submarine volcanic-sedimentary sequences at the northern Kermadec Islands. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 28(2):235-257 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 85093: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.11.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Spondylus raoulensis Oliver 1915 scallop | |
Sedentaria | |
Serpulidae "indet. A" Rafinesque 1835
Serpulidae "indet. B" Rafinesque 1835 | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Celleporina sp. Gray 1848 | |
Anthozoa | |
Cyphastrea serailia Forskal 1775 stony coral
Goniastrea australensis Milne Edwards and Haime 1857 stony coral | |
Scolymia australis Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 stony coral | |
Turbinaria sp. Oken 1815 stony coral | |
Pavona minuta Wells 1954 stony coral | |
Leptastrea transversa Klunzinger 1879 stony coral | |
Florideophyceae | |
Corallinaceae indet. Lamouroux 1816 |