Also known as GS 9950; V 1048

Where: New Zealand (40.7° S, 172.4° E: paleocoordinates 13.1° N, 167.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Battery Member (Aorangi Mine Formation), Yapeenian (470.3 - 467.3 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: Derived from Battery Member of Aorangi Mine Fm, which overlies the Anthill Black Shale Mbr (Lancefieldian-Castlemanian). THICKNESS: 150 m in type section. AGE: Battery Mbr is upper Castlemainian and lower Yapeenian, but collection is derived from the zone of Oncograptus, corresponding to the uppermost part of the member and is lower Yapeenian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Presumably uppermost part of Battery Mbr.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep-water; poorly lithified, gray, blue, sandy siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original carbon

Reposited in the IGNS

Collection methods: bulk,

• COLLECTOR: G. Smith (see Smith 1966, p. 174); re-collected by R.A. Cooper (1965-7). REPOSITORY: New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS Science), Lower Hutt, New Zealand

Primary reference: R. A. Cooper. 1979. Ordovician Geology and Graptolite faunas of the Aorangi Mine area, North-west Nelson, New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 47 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63281: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 10.08.2006, edited by Pete Wagner

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