R15/f8700 - Kihi Road, Kawhia (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Also known as GS6935

Where: New Zealand (38.1° S, 175.0° E: paleocoordinates 85.8° S, 52.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Puaroan (150.0 - 145.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Captain Kings Shellbed, basal Ohineruru Formation. AGE: Puaroan = Late Tithonian

• 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: D. Kear, 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 63748: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.08.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham

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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Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Mesohibolitidae
Hibolithes marwicki2
Hibolithes marwicki2 belemnite
Subspecies: H. marwicki marwicki
Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Myophorelloidae
Vaugonia (Vaugonia) "n. sp. B"
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Acanthothirididae
Kawhiarhynchia cf. kawhiana1
1MacFarlan 1992; 2Stevens 1965