AU7026, Waipukua Bay (N28/f868) (Miocene of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (36.2° S, 174.3° E: paleocoordinates 43.8° S, 176.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pakaurangi Formation (Waitemata Group), Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• Late 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 195334: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.08.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae