AU6677, Cape Colville (S09/f9515) (Miocene of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (36.5° S, 175.3° E: paleocoordinates 45.0° S, 178.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Waitemata Group, Aquitanian (23.0 - 20.4 Ma)

• From the Kawau Subgroup, but formation not given. Early Otaian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• Matrix cemented to specimens, both internally and externally, and disaggregation methods suggest reasonably full lithification.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Auckland University

Primary reference: J. H. Robinson. 2017. Early Miocene brachiopods of the Waitemata and Waitakere groups, Auckland and Northland, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 60:2-22 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195316: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.08.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Notosariidae
Notosaria antipoda Thomson 1918