Target Gully (Miocene of New Zealand)

Also known as GS 9572

Where: South Island, New Zealand (45.1° S, 170.9° E: paleocoordinates 49.9° S, 178.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Gee Greensand Formation, Altonian (19.0 - 15.9 Ma)

• early Altonian, lower Miocene

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; green sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Primary reference: P. A. Maxwell. 1978. Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on some New Zealand Cenozoic Mollusca, with descriptions of new taxa. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 5(1):15-46 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 205330: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 11.10.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Lima colorata Hutton 1873 file clam
 Pandorida - Clavagellidae
 Cardiida - Cardiidae