Also known as S24/f0499
Where: New Zealand (41.6° S, 171.9° E: paleocoordinates 54.0° S, 179.4° W)
• coordinate based on unpublished field data
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kaiata Mudstone Formation, Kaiatan to Kaiatan (39.1 - 34.3 Ma)
• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From an unknown lithostratigraphic unit, but probably Kaiata Mudstone. AGE: Kaiatan-Runangan (late Eocene), on the basis of macrofossil biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position in unit.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Wilding in 1945; reposited in the IGNS
• COLLECTOR: Wilding, A.P.B., 1945. REPOSITORY: GNS, New Zealand
Primary reference: R. A. Henderson. 1975. Cenozoic Spatangoid Echinoids from New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 46:1-129 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 155830: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 02.05.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
Schizaster "sp. A" Agassiz 1835 heart urchin |