Where: New Zealand (39.9° S, 174.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.4° S, 174.9° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
When: Rapanui Formation, Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• Rapanui Formation, Hawera Series
•G.S. 4174 is at the base of the Hawera Series (Pleistocene)
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
• The Mollusca are probably of warm rather than cold thermal facies.
Collection methods: Collection made from pockets among boulders resting on bored surface of Waitotaran (Lower Pliocene) age.
Primary reference: D. A. Brown. 1952. The Tertiary Cheilostomatous Polyzoa of New Zealand. 1-405 [L. Liow/F. Franeck]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 173728: authorized by Lee Hsiang Liow, entered by Franziska Franeck on 13.10.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gymnolaemata | |
Holoporella hastigera Busk 1881 | |
Escharoides excavata MacGillivray 1860 | |
Arachnopusia unicornis Hutton 1873 | |
Chaperia ? rubida Hincks 1881
Chaperia acanthina Lamouroux 1824 | |
Triphyllozoon umbonatum MacGillivray 1884 | |
Microporella ciliata Pallas 1766 |