Rakaia Gorge, bed "s"; (K35/f0027) (Cretaceous to of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (43.5° S, 171.6° E: paleocoordinates 68.2° S, 150.8° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Monro Conglomerate Formation, Mangaotanean to Mangaotanean (92.1 - 83.5 Ma)

Environment/lithology: alluvial fan; lithified, gray, sandy mudstone

• The Monro Conglomerate, deposited as alluvial and colluvial sediments in a terrestrial environment (Field & Browne 1986, 1989; Andrews et al. 1987)
• This 2-m-thick bed consists of medium grey, hard gritty mudstone, part of a 200 m sequence of interbedded conglomerates and carbonaceous mudstones of the Monro Conglomerate

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original chitin, original sporopollenin

Collected by B.D. Fields in 1980; reposited in the IGNS

Collection methods: core, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: A. C. Harris and J. I. Raine. 2002. A sclerite from a late Cretaceous moth (Insecta: Lepidoptera) from Rakaia Gorge, Canterbury, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 32(3):457-462 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 121140: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 28.11.2011

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Taxonomic list

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Angiospermae
 Gunnerales -
Tricolpites sp.
Tricolpites sp. Couper 1953
 Coniferales - Podocarpaceae
Phyllocladidites mawsonii, Podocarpidites sp.
Phyllocladidites mawsonii Cookson 1947 podocarp
Podocarpidites sp. Cookson 1947 podocarp
Polypodiopsida
  - Polypodiaceae
Verrucatosporites sp., Laevigatosporites ovatus
Verrucatosporites sp. Pflug and Thomson 1953
Laevigatosporites ovatus Wilson and Webster 1946
Pteridopsida
  -
Leiotriletes sp., Granulatisporites sp.
Leiotriletes sp. Potonie and Kremp 1954
Granulatisporites sp. Potonié and Kremp 1954
Insecta
 Lepidoptera - Geometridae
? Helastia sp.
? Helastia sp. Guenee 1868 geometer moth