Also known as Collection #3052 (Hendy PhD); GS #3236
Where: New Zealand (44.2° S, 171.1° E: paleocoordinates 49.6° S, 176.9° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Mount Brown Formation, Otaian (21.7 - 19.0 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: No lithostratigraphic data stated in text, other than being derived from glauconitic sandstone with conglomerate, about 900 ft above the limestone. Estimated to be from Waikari Formation based on correlation figure of King et al. (1994). AGE: Altonian age= Early Miocene; Awamoan in text.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, glauconitic, conglomeratic sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the IGNS
Collection methods: quarrying,
• COLLECTOR: Collected by Wellman (1944). REPOSITORY: Collection probably reposited in New Zealand Geological Survey (IGNS) collections, Lower Hutt, New Zealand.
Primary reference: H. W. Wellman. 1953. The Geology of the Geraldine Subdivision. New Zealand Geological Survey bulletin 50 [A. Miller/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 67827: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 12.12.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam | |
Neilo awamoana clam | |
Cucullaea australis clam | |
Limopsis cf. zitteli Ihering 1907 clam | |
Lentipecten hochstetteri Zittel 1864 scallop | |
Anomia trigonopsis Hutton 1873 jingle | |
Pleuromeris sp. Conrad 1867 clam | |
Notocorbula humerosa Hutton 1885 clam | |
Gari "n. sp." Schumacher 1817 clam | |
Atamarcia aff. sulcifera Marwick 1927 venus clam
Marama (Hina) ovata Marwick 1927 venus clam | |
Scalpomactra "n. sp." Finlay 1928 clam
Zenatia "n. sp." Gray 1853 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Tanea sublata moon snail
Friginatica vaughani moon snail
Polinices huttoni moon snail
Polinices (Polinella) lobata moon snail | |
Struthiolaria subspinosa Marwick 1924 snail | |
Xenophora prognata carrier shell | |
Baryspira robusta Marwick 1924 snail | |
Comitas fusiformis snail | |
Zemacies "n. sp." Finlay 1926 snail | |
Austrotoma minor snail | |
Coluzea aff. dentata snail | |
"Hima soicalis" = Nassarius (Hima)
"Hima soicalis" = Nassarius (Hima) snail | |
Austrofusus spinifer true whelk
Verconella "n. sp." Iredale 1914 true whelk
"Verconella cf. marwicki" = Penion marwicki Finlay 1930 true whelk | |
Spinomelon parki volute | |
Maoricrypta wilckensi slipper shell
Sigapatella sp. Lesson 1830 slipper shell | |
Maoricolpus cavershamensis turret shell |