S6, South Mathesons Bay (R09/f135, L17565) (Miocene of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (36.3° S, 174.8° E: paleocoordinates 44.9° S, 177.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Waitemata Group, Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)

• Early Otaian

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified sandstone

• 0-0.1 m of lenticular, shelly sandstone in shallow depressions atop the underlying units. Shells are the disarticulated plates of the large barnacle Bathylasma aucklandica (part of pebbly coquina facies of Ricketts et al. 1989, upper unit of Kawau Subgroup)

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: M. K. Eagle, B. W. Hayward, J. A. Grant-Mackie and M. R. Gregory. 1999. Fossil communities in an Early Miocene transgressive sequence, Mathesons Bay, Leigh, Auckland. Tane (37)43-67 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 146341: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 21.06.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Thecostraca
 Balanomorpha - Pachylasmatidae
? Pachylasma southlandicum
 Balanomorpha - Bathylasmatidae
Bathylasma aucklandicum
Bathylasma aucklandicum Hector 1888 barnacle