N141/f749A - Te Aute (Southland Series) (Oligocene of New Zealand)

Also known as GS 5896

Where: East Coast, New Zealand (40.0° S, 176.7° E: paleocoordinates 49.2° S, 177.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)

• From Waikatakian stage (late Oligocene to earliest Miocene, though considered late Oligocene for this collection).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; glauconitic, argillaceous, calcareous sandstone and glauconitic, argillaceous siltstone

• The assemblage suggests deposition on the deeper part of the shelf.
• Coarse grained, glauconitic, muddy sandstones and siltstones, occasionally interbedded with calcareous sandstones.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Collected by J.T. Kingma. Collection likely to be reposited at IGNS (Geological Survey of New Zealand).

Primary reference: J.T. Kingma. 1971. Geology of the Te Aute Subdivision. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 70 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45184: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.10.2004

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Taxonomic list

• Identified by A.U.E Scott (GSNZ). Of reliable quality, vetted by A. Hendy (2004)
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Gastropoda
 Neogastropoda - Terebridae
Zeacuminia sp.
Zeacuminia sp. Finlay 1930 auger snail
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
Parasyrinx subalta
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana sp.
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Neilo cf. awamoana
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Parvamussium zitteli
 Lucinida - Lucinidae
? Pteromyrtea sp.
? Pteromyrtea sp. Finlay 1926 clam
unclassified
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Coelenterata indet.
Coelenterata indet. Hatschek 1888