Also known as GS 6082
Where: New Zealand (39.0° S, 175.5° E: paleocoordinates 49.1° S, 179.1° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)
• Of the Landon series, no formal lithostratigraphic determination. Waitakian age (late Oligocene). The Landon series unconformably overlies Mesozoic greywacke and argillite, and is overlain, unconformably by greywacke conglomerates of the Taranaki series. In Okupata Stream is exposed 150 ft of hard limestone, overlain by 150 ft of calcareous greensand with some bands of mudstone.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, brown, yellow limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Collected by Gregg et al. (N.Z. Geo. Surv.) Collections probably reposited in IGNS (USGS) collections.
Primary reference: D. R. Gregg. 1960. The geology of Tongarairo Subdivision. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 40 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 45022: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.09.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Cucullaea (Latiarca) sp. Conrad 1862 clam |