R13/f6628 - Moewaka Stream, Port Waikato (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Also known as N51/628

Where: New Zealand (37.4° S, 174.8° E: paleocoordinates 86.0° S, 62.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Puaroan (150.0 - 145.0 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Unknown lithostratigraphic unit, not stated in text. AGE: Puaroan zone A = Tithonian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray mudstone

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

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IGNS

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: A.P. Mason and B.F. Purser (late 1950's). REPOSITORY: Presumably the New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS), Lower Hutt, New Zealand.

Primary reference: B.H. Purser. 1961. Geology of the Port Waikato Region (Onewhero Sheet N51). New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 69 [A. Miller/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 63864: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.08.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COMPLETENESS: Exhaustive for bivalvia, cephalopoda, and brachiopoda. NOMENCLATURE: Not an authoritative publication, although identified by specialist. IDENTIFICATION: All older collections re-identified by C.R. Laws
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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia hochstetteri
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Belemnopsis sp.
Belemnopsis sp. Bayle 1878 belemnite