Where: New Zealand (41.1° S, 172.5° E: paleocoordinates 12.5° N, 169.4° W)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Leslie Formation (Aorere Group), Darriwilian (467.3 - 458.4 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: Upper Aorere Series=group of Henderson et al. (1959). AGE: Upper Darriwilian Cooper (1971) notes that this is now the Leslie Formation, which overlies the Roaring Lion formation (PJW).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale and lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the IGNS
• COLLECTOR: L.I. Grange and S.J.H. Sylvester. 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 63957: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.08.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Pterobranchia | |
Didymograptus nicholsoni Lapworth 1875 graptolite
Didymograptus cf. euodus Lapworth 1875 graptolite | |
Pterograptus elegans Holm 1881 graptolite | |
"Retiograptus "latus"" = Reteograptus, "Retiograptus speciosus" = Reteograptus, "Retiograptus geinitzianus" = Reteograptus geinitzianus
"Retiograptus "latus"" = Reteograptus graptolite
"Retiograptus speciosus" = Reteograptus graptolite
"Retiograptus geinitzianus" = Reteograptus geinitzianus Hall 1859 graptolite | |
Hallograptus aff. mucronatus lasiograptid | |
Climacograptus sp. Hall 1865 climacograptid
Climacograptus antiquus climacograptid | |
Diplograptidae indet., Amplexograptus confertus, "Glyptograptus teretiusculus" = Hustedograptus teretiusculus, Diplograptus spiculatus
Diplograptidae indet. graptolite
Amplexograptus confertus graptolite
"Glyptograptus teretiusculus" = Hustedograptus teretiusculus Hisinger 1840 graptolite
Diplograptus spiculatus graptolite | |
"Cryptograptus schaferi" = Cryptograptus schaeferi, Glossograptus hincksii
"Cryptograptus schaferi" = Cryptograptus schaeferi Lapworth 1880 graptolite
Glossograptus hincksii Hopkinson 1872 graptolite |