R15/f8037 - Waiherike River, Kawhia (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Also known as GS 516; N73/37

Where: New Zealand (38.1° S, 174.8° E: paleocoordinates 84.7° S, 53.1° E)

• coordinate based on unpublished field data

• outcrop-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: marine; lithified, concretionary, calcareous claystone

• ENVIRONMENT: Unknown environment, not stated in text.
• LITHOLOGY: Calcareous claystones, concretionary. Presumed to be lithified on the basis of age.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IGNS

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTORS: A. McKay (1884). 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 63836: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 22.08.2006

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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 G.R. Stevens and C.A. Fleming.
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Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Inoceramus haasti" = Retroceramus haasti
"Inoceramus haasti" = Retroceramus haasti Hochstetter 1863 clam
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Belemnopsis spathi, Belemnopsis aucklandica
Belemnopsis aucklandica Hochstetter 1863 belemnite
Subspecies: B. aucklandica trechmanni