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: Dayrell Formation (Herald Group), Early/Lower Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.8 Ma)
• presumably from the same stratigraphic level as KE/f60
• 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 85097: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 27.11.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Antisabia cf. foliacea Quoy and Gaimard 1834 hoof shell | |
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"Turbo argyrostomus" = Turbo (Marmarostoma) argyrostomus
"Turbo argyrostomus" = Turbo (Marmarostoma) argyrostomus Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
Clanculus cf. stigmatarius top snail
aff. Micrelenchus sp. top snail | |
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Bivalvia | |
Chama "sp. B" Linnaeus 1758 jewel box | |
Periglypta sp. Jukes-Browne 1914 venus clam | |
Neolepton antipodum clam | |
Spondylus raoulensis Oliver 1915 scallop
Chlamys cellularis scallop | |
Septifer cf. bryanae mussel |