Also known as GS 1535/5802

Where: New Zealand (38.9° S, 175.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.1° S, 176.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Miocene (11.6 - 5.3 Ma)

• Sandstones. A Tongaporutuan age (early Late Miocene) seems most probable based on faunal similarities with the Urenui beds and Hurupi Creek.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by Gregg et al. Likely to be reposited in IGNS (N.Z. Geol. Surv.) 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 45030: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.09.2004

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