Pyramid Valley, section III, 20 cm (Holocene of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (43.0° S, 172.6° E: paleocoordinates 43.0° S, 172.6° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• Age of swamp deposits are c. 4000-2000 BP

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; unlithified claystone

• Gray clay-gyttja, grading downward to blue clay

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R.C. Murphy, R.S. Duff in 1948

Collection methods: core

Primary reference: E. S. Deevey. 1955. Paleolimnology of the upper swamp deposit, Pyramid Valley. Records of the Canterbury Museum 6:291-344 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 164240: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 26.11.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Insecta
 Diptera - Chironomidae
"Dryadotanytarsus duffi n. sp." = Corynocera duffi
"Dryadotanytarsus duffi n. sp." = Corynocera duffi Deevey 1955 non biting midge