Locality R13/f6611, Waikato (Jurassic to of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (37.4° S, 174.8° E: paleocoordinates 79.3° S, 58.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Moewaka Formation, Late/Upper Callovian to Late/Upper Callovian (164.7 - 157.3 Ma)

• Early Heterian. Material from the lower part of Moewaka Formation, within the Murihiku Supergroup.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine

• Jurassic rocks of the Murihiku Supergroup represent estuarine and marine continental shelf sites of deposition.
• No information given.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: H. J. Campbell and J. A. Grant-Mackie. 1995. Jurassic Pholadomyidae (Bivalvia) from New Zealand and New Caledonia. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 38:47-59 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 56229: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 16.11.2005, edited by Austin Hendy

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus galoi Boehm 1907 clam
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Belemnopsis sp. Bayle 1878 belemnite