N4, North Mathesons Bay (R09/f139, L17569) (Miocene of New Zealand)

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

• Paleocoordinates: 41.0° S, 177.1° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• Early Otaian

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, shelly/skeletal mudstone and sandstone

• 0-10 m thick lenticular unit containing blocks of weakly laminated mudstone and very fine sandstone. One 3 m-diameter block of hard, concretionary siltstone contains scattered thin-shelled fossils (slide 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 146345: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 21.06.2013

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Jupiteria cf. vadosa
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Agariciidae
Agariciidae indet.
Agariciidae indet. Gray 1847 stony coral
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Veneridae
"Notocallista (Fossacallista) parki" = Fossacallista
"Notocallista (Fossacallista) parki" = Fossacallista venus clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
"Linucula sp." = Nucula (Linucula)
"Linucula sp." = Nucula (Linucula) Marwick 1931 nut clam