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: Lower Gisbornian. Cooper (1971) notes that this is now the Peel Formation, which overlies the Douglas formation (PJW).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale and lithified sandstone
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 63969: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 28.08.2006
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Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Pterobranchia | |
Dichograptidae indet., "Azygograptus cf. fasciculatus" = Nicholsonograptus fasciculatus
Dichograptidae indet. Lapworth 1873 graptolite
"Azygograptus cf. fasciculatus" = Nicholsonograptus fasciculatus Nicholson 1869 graptolite | |
Glyptograptus sp. Lapworth 1873 graptolite | |
Amplexograptus cf. confertus graptolite
Diplograptus cf. spiculatus graptolite
Diplograptus sp. graptolite | |
Dicellograptus sp. Hopkinson 1871 graptolite |