Also known as GS 3536

Where: Auckland, New Zealand (36.9° S, 174.8° E: paleocoordinates 39.1° S, 175.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Otahuhu Formation, Early/Lower Pliocene (5.3 - 3.6 Ma)

• Possibly correlated with Kaawa Formation (regional early Pliocene strata). Spoil from well screenings. From 25 ft shell band, the top of which is 98 ft below the high water mark. Opoitian-Waipipian age

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; shelly/skeletal mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: salvage,

• Collected by Coutts (1945). Collections most likely reposited at GNS (NZ Geol. Surv.), Lower Hutt.

Primary reference: J. Marwick. 1948. Lower Pliocene Mollusca from Otahuhu, Auckland. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 16 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 45258: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 15.10.2004

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