GS 7370 - Aorere Group, Chaffey Stream (Ordovician of New Zealand)

Where: New Zealand (41.1° S, 172.5° E: paleocoordinates 12.4° N, 169.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• 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: Lower 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

• ENVIRONMENT: Environmental data not reported in text.
• SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Interbeded slates, quartzites, and sandstones. LITHIFICATION: Assumed to be lithified as rocky types are slightly metamorphosed (e.g. slates).

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IGNS

• COLLECTOR: S.K. Swarko (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 63962: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.08.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• COMPLETENESS: Exhaustive for graptolites, trilobites and hydroids. NOMENCLATURE: Probably somewhat outdated, but from an authoritative publication and identified by a specialist.
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Pterobranchia
 Graptoloidea - Dichograptidae
Dichograptidae indet., Didymograptus sp., Didymograptus cf. nicholsoni
Dichograptidae indet. Lapworth 1873 graptolite
Didymograptus sp. McCoy 1851 graptolite
Didymograptus cf. nicholsoni Lapworth 1875 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Pterograptidae
? Pterograptus elegans
? Pterograptus elegans Holm 1881 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Phyllograptidae
Tetragraptus insuetus
Tetragraptus insuetus Keble and Benson 1929 graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Glossograptidae
Glossograptus modestus, Glossograptus hincksii
Glossograptus hincksii Hopkinson 1872 graptolite
Includes subspecies: G. hincksii fimbriatus
 Graptoloidea - Diplograptidae
"? Glyptograptus teretiusculus" = Hustedograptus teretiusculus, Diplograptus sp., ? Amplexograptus sp.
"? Glyptograptus teretiusculus" = Hustedograptus teretiusculus Hisinger 1840 graptolite
Diplograptus sp. graptolite
 Graptoloidea - Climacograptidae
Climacograptus sp.
Climacograptus sp. Hall 1865 climacograptid
 Graptoloidea - Retiolitidae
Glyptograptus schaferi