R17/f8056 - Awakino River, Awakino (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Also known as GS 980; N91/56

Where: New Zealand (38.5° S, 174.8° E: paleocoordinates 80.6° S, 51.7° E)

• 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-Early 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: M. Ongley, 1919. 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 63828: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 21.08.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COMPLETENESS: Exhaustive for bivalvia and brachiopoda. NOMENCLATURE: From authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature and use of subgeneric and species names. IDENTIFICATION: All older collections re-identified by J. Mariwck and C.A. Fleming.
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Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Terebratula sp.
Terebratula sp. Müller 1776
 Terebratulida - Postepithyrididae
"Terebratula (Kutchithyris) cf. acutiplicata" = Kutchithyris acutiplicata
"Terebratula (Kutchithyris) cf. acutiplicata" = Kutchithyris acutiplicata Kitchin 1900
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonella sp.
Rhynchonella sp. Fischer 1809
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea sp.
Cucullaea sp. Lamarck 1801 clam
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus sp. n. sp., Inoceramus brownei
Inoceramus sp. n. sp. Sowerby 1814 clam
Inoceramus brownei Marwick 1953 clam
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte sp.
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya sp.
Pleuromya sp. Meek 1873 clam