Also known as GS5790

Where: New Zealand (38.4° S, 177.3° E: paleocoordinates 80.3° S, 177.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Koranga Sandstone Formation, Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From Koranga Sandstone of the Taitai Series, overlies Torelsse supergroup along Maccoyella Ridge and is unconformably overlain by the the Te Wera Sandstone. THICKNESS: From bed within formation that varies in thickness between 116 (at this area) and 76 m (locally). AGE: Korangan of Wellman (1956) = Upper Aptian based on presence in unit of Aucellina radiatostriata and Maccoyella reflecta (Day 1969, Day and Speden 1970). STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From 40 ft above base of unit.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified, fine-grained, pebbly sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the IGNS

Collection methods: quarrying,

• COLLECTOR: I.G. Speden. REPOSITORY: GSNZ (now GNS Science, Lower Hutt, New Zealand).

Primary reference: I.G. Speden. 1975. Cretaceous stratigraphy of Raukumara Peninsula. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 91 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 65630: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.09.2006

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