Also known as GS 1538
Where: New Zealand (39.4° S, 175.7° E: paleocoordinates 41.5° S, 176.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)
• Beds containing plentiful fossils. Youngest Tertiary marine sediments in the district. Listed as "Wanganui Series" in the Gregg (1960), but these rocks are now mapped as Matemateaonga Formation, and will be Opoitian (Early Pliocene) in age (Hendy, 2003).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; shelly/skeletal, sandy mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments
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 45031: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.09.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
| Bivalvia | |
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Ostrea cf. chilensis Philippi 1844 oyster | |
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Serratina sp. Pallary 1922 tellin clam | |
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Dosinia (Asa) cf. lambata venus clam
Dosinia (Kereia) greyi Zittel 1864 venus clam | |
| Gastropoda | |
Zefallacia sp. n. sp.
Zefallacia sp. n. sp. Finlay 1926 cerith snail | |
Zeacumantus sp. n. sp.
Zeacumantus sp. n. sp. Finlay 1926 horn snail | |
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Zeacolpus (Zeacolpus) sp. Finlay 1926 turret shell | |
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Cominella (Cominella) cf. dingleyi true whelk
Penion sp. n. sp. Fischer 1884 true whelk | |
Alcithoe (Alcithoe) sp. n. sp.
Alcithoe (Alcithoe) sp. n. sp. Adams and Adams 1853 volute | |
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Crepidula radiata slipper shell | |