R13/f6641 - Maretae Stream, Port Waikato (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Also known as N51/641

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: 1 ft thick bed. Unknown lithostratigraphic unit, not stated in text. AGE: Puaroan, Zone B = Late Tithonian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, brown shale

• ENVIRONMENT: Unknown environment, not stated in text.
• LITHOLOGY: Brown shale. 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 63874: 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
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana sp.
Nuculana sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Entolium sp.
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop
 Pectinida - Buchiidae
Buchia plicata
Buchia plicata Zittel 1864 scallop
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Belemnopsis aucklandica
Belemnopsis aucklandica Hochstetter 1863 belemnite