R17/f6073 - Awakino River, Kawhia (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Also known as GS2518

Where: New Zealand (38.7° S, 174.7° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 80.6° S, 115.2° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Heterian (164.3 - 154.5 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Unknown lithostratigraphic unit, not stated in text. AGE: Heterian = Oxfordian-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: N.H. Taylor, 1929. 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 63750: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 19.08.2006

Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)

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
Myophorella (Scaphogonia) macnaughti