Also known as Raupo Creek; Five Forks
Where: New Zealand (45.1° S, 170.8° E: paleocoordinates 56.6° S, 161.9° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Kauru Formation, Selandian (61.6 - 59.2 Ma)
• "basal facies of Kauru Formation within a few millimeteres of the contact with the underlying Haast Schist... Probably middle to upper 'Wangaloan' Stage, equivalent to middle? Paleocene"
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, conglomeratic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Otago University collection
Primary reference: J. D. Stilwell, R. E. Fordyce, and P. J. Rolfe. 1994. Paleocene isocrinids (Echinodermata: Crinoidea) from the Kauru Formation, South Island, New Zealand. Journal of Paleontology 68(1):135-141 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 119661: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.10.2011
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
Metacrinus sp. Carpenter 1882 Sea lily | |
Gymnolaemata | |
cf. Lunulitidae indet. Lagaaij 1952 | |
"Ascophora indet." = Ascophorina
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