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 | |
Thecidellina cf. maxilla Hedley 1899 | |
Terebratulidae indet. Gray 1840 | |
Argyrotheca kupei Hiller 2008 | |
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