Also known as Wairarapa N166/539
Where: Wairarapa, New Zealand (41.4° S, 175.7° E: paleocoordinates 45.6° S, 177.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hurupi Formation, Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)
• Listed as "basal Tongaporutuan (NZ stage)".
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, blue mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: No collection details listed. Material reposited in IGNS collections (formerly NZ Geol. Surv. coll.'s). Collected by Victoria University graduate students and P. Vella (1948-1954). Also listed as GS 5360
Primary reference: P. Vella. 1954. Tertiary Mollusca from South-East Wairarapa. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 81(4):539-555 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 35690: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 04.01.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Sassia (Sassia) pahaoaensis triton shell |