E45/f9448 - Bastion Hill, Southland (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Also known as GS 345; S169/0448

Where: New Zealand (46.0° S, 168.5° E: paleocoordinates 72.4° S, 60.7° E)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Aratauran (201.4 - 188.9 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: "Upper Plagiostoma beds". Unknown lithostratigraphic unit, not stated in text. AGE: Aratauran = Hettangian to earliest Pliensbachian.

• 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, 1878. 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 63822: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.08.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham and Wolfgang Kiessling

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

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. Marwick.
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Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferinidae
Spiriferina sp.3
Spiriferina sp.3 d'Orbigny 1847
 Rhynchonellida - Wellerellidae
Vincentirhynchia pomeyroli2
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Herangirhynchia arawheroensis2, Rhynchonella sp.3
Rhynchonella sp.3 Fischer 1809
 Terebratulida -
Terebratulida indet.1
Terebratulida indet.1 Waagen 1883
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Monotidae
Otapiria marshalli
Otapiria marshalli Trechmann 1923 scallop
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
Palaeophorus (Kalentera) mckayi3
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya sp.3
Pleuromya sp.3 Meek 1873 clam
1Kiessling 2009; 2MacFarlan 1992; 3Marwick 1950