R17/f8599 - Awakino River Rd, Awakino (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Also known as AU L247a/b

Where: New Zealand (38.5° S, 174.8° E: paleocoordinates 76.5° S, 55.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Aalenian (174.1 - 170.3 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Unknown lithostratigraphic unit, not stated in text. AGE: Lower Temaikan = Aalenian.

• 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

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: J.A. Grant-Mackie, 1957. REPOSITORY: Presumably the University of Auckland, Auckland, 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 63753: 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 aff. spedeni
Vaugonia aff. spedeni Fleming 1987 clam