R15/f8012 - Kihi Road, Harbour (Jurassic to of New Zealand)

Also known as GS 1489; N73/12; GS9937

Where: New Zealand (38.1° S, 175.0° E: paleocoordinates 82.6° S, 51.0° E)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Heterian to Heterian (164.3 - 150.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Unknown lithostratigraphic unit, not stated in text. AGE: Puaroan = Late Tithonian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray, blue, argillaceous siltstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Unknown environment, not stated in text.
• LITHOLOGY: Medium blue-grey, non-calcareous, moderately hard, muddy silt.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IGNS

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTORS: L.I. Grange (1921). REPOSITORY: Presumably the New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS), Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

Primary reference: G. R. Stevens. 1965. The Jurassic and Cretaceous Belemnites of New Zealand and a Review of the Jurassic and Cretaceous Belemnites of the Indo-Pacific Region. New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 36 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63758: 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 (Belemnitida). NOMENCLATURE: From authoritative publication, with fairly modern nomenclature and use of species names. IDENTIFICATION: All older collections re-identified by G.R. Stevens.
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Malayomaorica malayomaorica Krumbeck 1923 scallop
 Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea sp. Douglas and Arkell 1932 file clam
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
 Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Belemnopsis aucklandica Hochstetter 1863 belemnite
Subspecies: B. aucklandica aucklandica
Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae