KE/f46 Dayrell Island (Pleistocene of New Zealand)

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
 Sorbeoconcha - Hipponicidae
Antisabia cf. foliacea Quoy and Gaimard 1834 hoof shell
 Neogastropoda - Muricidae
Coralliobia sp. Adams and Adams 1853 murex snail
listed as Corallioba
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
"Turbo argyrostomus" = Turbo (Marmarostoma) argyrostomus
"Turbo argyrostomus" = Turbo (Marmarostoma) argyrostomus Linnaeus 1758 snail
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
 Basommatophora - Siphonariidae
Williamia radiata pulmonate
listed as Willamia radiata nutata
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Chamidae
Chama "sp. B" Linnaeus 1758 jewel box
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Periglypta sp. Jukes-Browne 1914 venus clam
 Cardiida - Neoleptonidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Spondylus raoulensis Oliver 1915 scallop
 Mytilida - Mytilidae