S37/f577 (Eocene of New Zealand)

Also known as GS 3608

Where: Westland, New Zealand (42.1° S, 171.5° E: paleocoordinates 55.0° S, 178.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Island Sandstone Formation, Bartonian (41.3 - 38.0 Ma)

• Bortonian local stage = uppermost Lutetian to Bartonian (entrie Bartonian).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, medium-grained, brown, silty, calcareous sandstone

• Weathered sandstone; slightly calcareous medium brown muddy sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collected by H.W. Wellman. Collection likely to be reposited in IGNS (New Zealand Geological Survey) collections, Lower Hutt, New Zealand

Primary reference: H. W. Wellman. 1948. Geology of the Pike River Coalfield, North Westland. New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology 84-95 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 50157: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.05.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Identified by J. Marwick. Nomeclature revised by A. Hendy (2005 - PhD thesis).
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Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Laevidentaliidae
Laevidentalium sp.
Laevidentalium sp. Cossmann 1888 tusk shell
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Duplipecten parki
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
? Notocyathus sp.
? Notocyathus sp. Tenison-Woods 1880 stony coral