Also known as GS 10191, GS 12139

Where: Chatham Islands, New Zealand (44.0° S, 176.6° W: paleocoordinates 54.4° S, 147.1° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Red Bluff Tuff Formation (Kekerione Group), Waipawan (55.8 - 53.0 Ma)

• The Red Bluff Tuff is assigned an Late Teurian to early Waipawan local stage=Thanetian-Ypresian age based on biostratigraphy from combination of faunal groups. Most collections come from Waipawan portions of the unit, and therefore the collection is assigned a Waipawan age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; tuffaceous, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Collections reposited in Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences (New Zealand Geological Survey) collections. Collected by MAC (1977)

Primary reference: H. J. Campbell, P. B. Andrews, A. G. Beu, P. A. Maxwell, A. R. Edwards, M. G. Laird, N. deB Hornibrook, D. C. Mildenhall, W. A. Watters, J. S. Buckeridge, D. E. Lee, C. P. Strong, G. J. Wilson and B. W. Hayward. 1993. Cretaceous-Cenozoic geology and biostratigraphy of the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Monograph 2:1-269 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51079: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 26.05.2005

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