H46/f6739 - Pounawea Fm, Otago (Jurassic to of New Zealand)

Also known as GS6978

Where: New Zealand (46.5° S, 169.8° E: paleocoordinates 78.9° S, 38.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pounawea Formation, Bathonian to Bathonian (168.3 - 163.5 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Pounawea Formation. AGE: Upper Temaikan = uppermost Bajocian-Callovian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marinelithified

• ENVIRONMENT: Unknown environment, not stated in text.
• LITHOLOGY: Unknown lithology of lithification, not stated in text. Presumed to be lithified on the basis of age.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IGNS

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: I.G. Speden, 1957. REPOSITORY: Presumably the New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS), Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

Primary reference: C. A. Fleming. 1987. New Zealand Mesozoic Bivalves of the Superfamily Trigoniacea. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 53 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63737: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.08.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COMPLETENESS: Limited, however exhaustive, to taxonomic group covered in monograph (Trigoniacea). NOMENCLATURE: From authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature and use of subgeneric and species names. IDENTIFICATION: All older collections re-identified by C.A. Fleming.
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Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Vaugonia (Vaugonia) aff. spedeni
Vaugonia (Vaugonia) aff. spedeni Fleming 1987 clam
Listed as "V. (V.) n. sp. A aff spedeni"
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Mesohibolitidae
Hibolithes catlinensis
Hibolithes catlinensis Hector 1878 belemnite