GS 9705, South Head, Port Waikato (R13/f6636) (Jurassic of New Zealand)

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

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

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

• 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
Bivalvia
 Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia sp. Blainville 1824 clam
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus aff. everesti Oppel 1862 clam
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Australobuchia aff. partimlirata1 Hikuroa and Grant-Mackie 2008 scallop
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Zeilleria sp.2 Bayle 1878