Where: New Zealand (41.1° S, 172.6° E: paleocoordinates 12.0° N, 171.2° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Peel Formation (Golden Bay Group), Gisbornian (458.4 - 452.7 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Upper Aorere Series=group of Henderson et al. (1959). AGE: Middle Gisbornian=Stage 5, Late Ordovician. Now Peel Formation (PJW).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale and lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the IGNS
• COLLECTOR: Originally collected by E.O. MacPherson; re-collected by S.K. Swarko and A. Wodzicki, 1958. REPOSITORY: New Zealand Geological Survey (now GNS Science), Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
Primary reference: S. K. Skwarko. 1962. Graptolites of Cobb River-Mount Arthur Area, North-West Nelson, New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 1(15):215-247 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 63956: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.08.2006
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Taxonomic list
Pterobranchia | |
Dichograptidae indet., "Azygograptus cf. fasciculatus" = Nicholsonograptus fasciculatus
Dichograptidae indet. Lapworth 1873 graptolite
"Azygograptus cf. fasciculatus" = Nicholsonograptus fasciculatus Nicholson 1869 graptolite Includes subspecies: A. cf. fasciculatus attenuatus
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"Retiograptus geinitzianus" = Reteograptus geinitzianus
"Retiograptus geinitzianus" = Reteograptus geinitzianus Hall 1859 graptolite | |
Climacograptus sp. Hall 1865 climacograptid | |
Amplexograptus confertus graptolite
Diplograptus cf. spiculatus graptolite
Diplograptus sp. graptolite | |
Dicellograptus cf. vagus, Dicellograptus sp., Dicellograptus cf. forchammeri, Dicellograptus cf. intortus, Dicellograptus cf. moffatensis, Dicellograptus cf. caduceus, Dicellograptus cf. divaricatus, Dicellograptus cf. sextans, Dicranograptus nicholsoni
Dicellograptus cf. vagus graptolite
Dicellograptus sp. Hopkinson 1871 graptolite
Dicellograptus cf. forchammeri graptolite
Dicellograptus cf. intortus graptolite
Dicellograptus cf. moffatensis graptolite
Dicellograptus cf. caduceus Lapworth and Wood 1876 graptolite
Dicellograptus cf. divaricatus Hall 1859 graptolite
Dicellograptus cf. sextans Hall 1843 graptolite
Dicranograptus nicholsoni Hopkinson 1870 graptolite | |
Glossograptus hincksii Hopkinson 1872 graptolite | |
"Archaeolafoea serialis" = Mastigograptus serialis
"Archaeolafoea serialis" = Mastigograptus serialis Chapman and Thomas 1936 graptolite |