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: 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 63964: 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, Didymograptus cf. euodus
Dichograptidae indet. Lapworth 1873 graptolite
"Azygograptus cf. fasciculatus" = Nicholsonograptus fasciculatus Nicholson 1869 graptolite
Didymograptus cf. euodus Lapworth 1875 graptolite | |
Climacograptus cf. antiquus climacograptid | |
Amplexograptus confertus, "Glyptograptus cf. teretiusculus" = Hustedograptus teretiusculus, Diplograptus spiculatus, Diplograptus sp.
Amplexograptus confertus graptolite
"Glyptograptus cf. teretiusculus" = Hustedograptus teretiusculus Hisinger 1840 graptolite
Diplograptus spiculatus graptolite
Diplograptus sp. graptolite | |
Dicellograptus sp. Hopkinson 1871 graptolite | |
Glossograptus hincksii Hopkinson 1872 graptolite |