R13/f6609 - Port Waikato, Auckland (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Also known as GS10764

Where: New Zealand (37.4° S, 174.7° E: paleocoordinates 82.0° S, 58.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Unknown lithostratigraphic unit, not stated in text. AGE: Basal Ohauan stage = Late Kimmeridgian-early Tithonian, here assigned to Kimmeridgian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marinelithified

• ENVIRONMENT: Unknown environment, not stated in text.
• LITHOLOGY: Unknown lithology or 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: B.R. Paterson, 1952, and re-collected by G.R. Stevens and B.C. Waterhouse (1969). REPOSITORY: Presumably the New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS), Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

Primary reference: B.H. Purser. 1961. Geology of the Port Waikato Region (Onewhero Sheet N51). New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 69 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63742: 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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Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet.
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Belemnopsis sp.
Belemnopsis sp. Bayle 1878 belemnite
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Inoceramus haasti" = Retroceramus haasti
"Inoceramus haasti" = Retroceramus haasti Hochstetter 1863 clam
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
"Buchia malayomaorica" = Malayomaorica malayomaorica
"Buchia malayomaorica" = Malayomaorica malayomaorica Krumbeck 1923 scallop
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Myophorella (Scaphogonia) macnaughti