R13/f6639 - Maretae Stream, Port Waikato (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Also known as N51/639

Where: New Zealand (37.4° S, 174.7° E: paleocoordinates 85.9° S, 63.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Puaroan (150.0 - 145.0 Ma)

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

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray shale and lithified mudstone

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

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IGNS

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: B.R. Paterson, 1952. 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 63872: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.08.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COMPLETENESS: Limited, however exhaustive, to taxonomic group covered in monograph (Trigoniacea). NOMENCLATURE: From authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature and use of subgeneric and species names. IDENTIFICATION: All older collections re-identified by C.A. Fleming.
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Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus aff. everesti
Inoceramus aff. everesti Oppel 1862 clam
 Pectinida - Monotidae
Otapiria masoni
Otapiria masoni Marwick 1953 scallop
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia hochstetteri
 Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea sp.
Pseudolimea sp. Douglas and Arkell 1932 file clam
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
"Indogrammatodon sp." = Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon)
"Indogrammatodon sp." = Grammatodon (Indogrammatodon) Cox 1937 clam
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Belemnopsis aucklandica
Belemnopsis aucklandica Hochstetter 1863 belemnite
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
"Rhynchonella" sp.
"Rhynchonella" sp. Fischer 1809