Also known as GS6241
Where: New Zealand (38.1° S, 174.8° E: paleocoordinates 80.8° S, 54.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Captain Kings Shellbed Member (Ohineruru Formation), Heterian (164.3 - 154.5 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Captain Kings Shellbed, basal Ohineruru Formation. AGE: Lower Heterian = Oxfordian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marinelithified
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the IGNS
Collection methods: quarrying,
• COLLECTOR: J.B. Waterhouse, 1954. 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 63747: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.08.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Vaugonia (Vaugonia) kawhiana Trechmann 1923 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Kawhiarhynchia kawhiana1 Trechmann 1923 |