Holland's Point (Q08/f0582) (Miocene of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (36.2° S, 174.3° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° S, 176.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Waiteroa Member (Pakaurangi Formation), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• Late Otaian

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, massive, silty sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by Hiller

• Repository: almost all material is in Canterbury Museum, Christchurch (prefixed CM); a few specimens are in Auckland University Geology Department (prefixed AU).

Primary reference: N. Hiller. 2011. Micromorphic brachiopods from the Early Miocene (Otaian) of Northland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 54(1):75-87 [M. Clapham/M. Manojlovic/M. Manojlovic]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152327: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 17.11.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Thecideida - Thecidellinidae
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
 Terebratulida - Megathyrididae
Argyrotheca kupei Hiller 2008
 Terebratulida - Terebratellidae
Terebratellidae indet. King 1850
>460 specimens