N3, North Mathesons Bay (R09/f137, L17567) (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: shoreface; lithified, shelly/skeletal conglomerate

• 0-1 m of lenticular, fossiliferous, subangular to subrounded, cobble and pebble conglomerate. Many clasts are encrusted with calcareous algae (part of pebbly coquina facies of Ricketts et al. 1989)

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 146344: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 21.06.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Thecostraca
 Balanomorpha - Bathylasmatidae
Bathylasma aucklandicum
Bathylasma aucklandicum Hector 1888 barnacle
Gastropoda
 Trochoidea - Turbinidae
Sarmaturbo superbus
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
Calliostoma sp.
Calliostoma sp. Swainson 1840 top snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima colorata
Lima colorata Hutton 1873 file clam
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
"Crenostrea gittosina" = Pycnodonte (Crenostrea)
"Crenostrea gittosina" = Pycnodonte (Crenostrea) oyster
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratellidae
Magasella neozelandica
 Rhynchonellida - Notosariidae
Notosaria antipoda
Notosaria antipoda Thomson 1918
Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Phyllacanthus titan
Phyllacanthus titan pencil urchin
Anthozoa
 Alcyonacea - Isididae
Keratoisis dactyla
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Agariciidae indet.
Agariciidae indet. Gray 1847 stony coral