R13/f6607 - Klondyke Road, Port Waikato (Jurassic of New Zealand)

Also known as N51/607

Where: New Zealand (37.4° S, 174.8° E: paleocoordinates 81.0° S, 58.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Heterian (164.3 - 154.5 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Unknown lithostratigraphic unit, not stated in text. AGE: Basal Heterian = Oxfordian-Early Kimmeridgian.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, brown mudstone

• ENVIRONMENT: Unknown environment, not stated in text.
• LITHOLOGY: Brown 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 63881: 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
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus galoi
Inoceramus galoi Boehm 1907 clam