Te Whakapatiki Stream R17/f566 (Jurassic of New Zealand)

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

• no information on paleoenvironment
• pebbly, medium-grained 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

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Taxonomic list

• list apparently complete
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
 Terebratulida -
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Dicoelitidae
 Ammonitida - Sphaeroceratidae
Xenocephalites grantmackiei n. sp. Westermann and Hudson 1991 ammonite
Lilloettia aff. boesei Burckhardt 1927 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostreinae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma (Oxytoma) sp. Meek 1864 scallop
O. (Oxytoma)
 Pectinida - Propeamussiidae
Propeamussium (Parvamussium) clammoseum mud scallop
P. (Parvamussium)
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium (Entolium) sp. Meek 1865 scallop
E. (Entolium)
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) cf. laminatus Sowerby 1818 scallop
C. (Camptonectes)
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Vaugonia (Vaugonia) kawhiana Trechmann 1923 clam
V. (Vaugonia)
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam
Neocrassina sp. Fischer 1887 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya milleformis Marwick 1953 clam
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
"Anisocardia (Antiquicyprina) sp." = Antiquicyprina
"Anisocardia (Antiquicyprina) sp." = Antiquicyprina Casey 1952 clam
A. (Antiquicyprina)
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Goniomya (Goniomya) sp. Agassiz 1842 clam
G. (Goniomya)
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Palaeonucula sp. Quenstedt 1930 nut clam
Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae