Where: Auckland, New Zealand (38.6° S, 174.9° E: paleocoordinates 77.3° S, 54.3° E)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Temaikan (176.0 - 164.3 Ma)
• 2 m thick bed at top of unnamed formation within the Rengarenga Group
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; pebbly sandstone
Primary reference: G. E. G. Westermann and N. Hudson. 1991. The first find of Eurycephalitinae (Jurassic Ammonitina) in New Zealand and its biogeographic implications. Journal of Paleontology 65(4):689-693 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 4878: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 28.08.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhynchonellidae indet. Gray 1848 | |
Terebratuloidea indet. Gray 1840 | |
Cephalopoda | |
Conodicoelites flemingi belemnite | |
Xenocephalites grantmackiei n. sp. Westermann and Hudson 1991 ammonite
Lilloettia aff. boesei Burckhardt 1927 ammonite | |
Lytoceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
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Ostreinae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster | |
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Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam
Neocrassina sp. Fischer 1887 clam | |
Pleuromya milleformis Marwick 1953 clam | |
"Anisocardia (Antiquicyprina) sp." = Antiquicyprina
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Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam | |
Palaeonucula sp. Quenstedt 1930 nut clam | |
Sedentaria | |