Where: New Zealand (37.5° S, 178.0° E: paleocoordinates 38.0° S, 178.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Te Piki Member (Waipaoa Formation), Castlecliffian (1.6 - 0.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, shelly/skeletal, brown, gray, sandy, calcareous mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. A. Grant-Mackie and M. Chapman-Smith. 1971. Paleontological notes on the Castlecliffian Te Piki Bed, with descriptions of new Molluscan taxa. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 14(4):655-704 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 178187: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 24.04.2016
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Mysella larochei clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Powellisetia marshalli Grant-Mackie and Chapman-Smith 1971 snail | |
Capulus uncinatus Hutton 1873 true whelk | |
Austrorissopsis ponderi n. sp.
Austrorissopsis ponderi n. sp. Grant-Mackie and Chapman-Smith 1971 snail | |
Tibersyrnola tepikiensis snail |