R17/f8058 - Palmer Creek, Awakino (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Also known as GS 982; N91/58

Where: New Zealand (38.5° S, 174.8° E: paleocoordinates 84.5° S, 49.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Unknown lithostratigraphic unit, not stated in text. AGE: Ohauan = Late Kimmeridgian-early Tithonian, here assigned to Tithonian.

• 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 63829: 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 cephalopoda. NOMENCLATURE: From authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature and use of subgeneric and species names. IDENTIFICATION: All older collections re-identified by J. Mariwck and G.R. Stevens
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida -
 Ammonitida - Ataxioceratidae
"Kossmatia aff. desmidoptycha" = Stevensites desmidoptycha
"Kossmatia aff. desmidoptycha" = Stevensites desmidoptycha Uhlig 1910 ammonite
 Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Inoceramus haasti" = Retroceramus haasti1
"Inoceramus haasti" = Retroceramus haasti1 Hochstetter 1863 clam
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Malayomaorica malayomaorica1 Krumbeck 1923 scallop