H47/6494 - Bloody Jacks Island, Otago (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Also known as GS 148

Where: New Zealand (46.5° S, 169.7° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 83.9° S, 108.7° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Heterian (164.3 - 154.5 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Unknown lithostratigraphic unit, not stated in text. AGE: Heterian (according to Marwick 1951) = Oxfordian-lowest Kimmeridgian; Temaikan (according to FRED) = Aalenian-Callovian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marinelithified

• ENVIRONMENT: Unknown environment, not stated in text.
• LITHOLOGY: Unknown lithology of lithification, not stated in text. Presumed to be lithified on the basis of age and figured specimens.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IGNS

• COLLECTOR: A. McKay, 1873. REPOSITORY: Presumably the New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS), Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

Primary reference: J. Marwick. 1953. Divisions and faunas of the Hokonui System (Triassic and Jurassic). New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 21 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63811: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.08.2006

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Taxonomic list

• COMPLETENESS: Exhaustive for reported faunas (from several monographs). New Zealand Fossil Record File (http://data.gns.cri.nz/fred/) for supplementary data., further publications and synonymies. NOMENCLATURE: From authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature and use of subgeneric and species names. IDENTIFICATION: All older collections re-identified by J.A. Fleming.
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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Acesta brycei
Acesta brycei Marwick 1953 file clam
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Camptonectes grandis
Camptonectes grandis Hector 1886 scallop
 Ostreida - Malleidae
Isognomon aff. subplanum
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea brycei
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana willetti
Nuculana willetti Marwick 1953 pointed nut clam
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula (Palaeonucula) cuneiformis
Nucula (Palaeonucula) cuneiformis Sowerby 1840 nut clam