R16/f6044 - Whakapirau Road, Kawhia Harbour (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Also known as GS 1958; N73/44

Where: New Zealand (38.2° S, 174.8° E: paleocoordinates 80.7° S, 53.8° E)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Heterian (161.2 - 153.5 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: Lithology and lithification data not reported in text. Assumed to be lithified on the basis of age.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IGNS

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTORS: J. Williamson. 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 63833: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.08.2006

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 J.A. Marwick and G.R. Stevens.
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
 Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae