Also known as GS 5561
Where: Southland, New Zealand (46.3° S, 168.5° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 52.0° S, 152.5° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wangaloa Formation, Danian (66.0 - 61.7 Ma)
• Waipawan local stage = basal Ypresian. More recent literature (Stilwell, 1993; Cooper et al., 2004) suggests a Early Teurian stage = Danian age.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; ferruginous, pebbly conglomerate and sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying,
• Collected by Finlay and Marwick. Collections are likely to be reposited in IGNZ (New Zealand Geological Survey) collections.
Primary reference: H. J. Harrington. 1958. Geology of Kaitangata Coalfield. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 59 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 50176: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 09.05.2005
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Proficus obtusa" = Priscoficus
"Proficus obtusa" = Priscoficus fig shell | |
Zeacolpus (Leptocolpus) semiconcavus turret shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Spineilo elongata pointed nut clam | |
Myrtea microlirata clam
Pteromyrtea obesa clam | |
Dosinia (Dosinobia) ongleyi venus clam | |
Scaphopoda | |
Antalis multistricta tusk shell |