Also known as N51/636
Where: New Zealand (37.4° S, 174.7° E: paleocoordinates 84.9° S, 61.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Unknown lithostratigraphic unit, not stated in text. AGE: Puaroan, zone A = Tithonian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary, gray, argillaceous mudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: concretion
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 63869: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.08.2006, edited by Sarah Kolbe and Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Thracia sp. Blainville 1824 clam | |
Inoceramus aff. everesti Oppel 1862 clam | |
Buchia hochstetteri scallop | |
Cephalopoda | |
Belemnopsis auklandica belemnite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Zeilleria sp.2 Bayle 1878 |