Also known as GS 3818
Where: Southland, New Zealand (46.2° S, 169.9° E: paleocoordinates 58.5° S, 160.6° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wangaloa Formation, Danian (66.0 - 61.6 Ma)
• Reported as 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 C.A. Fleming. 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 50217: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.05.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Lunatia cf. lateaperta moon snail | |
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Cirsotrema (Cirsotrema) sp. Mörch 1852 wentletrap | |
Priscaphander sp. Finlay & Marwick 1937 snail | |
Scaphopoda | |
Laevidentalium sp. Cossmann 1888 tusk shell | |
Bivalvia | |
Cucullaea (Cucullona) sp. Finlay and Marwick 1937 clam | |
Talochlamys sp. Iredale 1929 scallop | |
Pleuromeris sp. Conrad 1867 clam | |
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
"Nuculanacea indet." = Nuculanoidea
"Nuculanacea indet." = Nuculanoidea Adams and Adams 1858 clam |